Linux Command abbreviations

Linux Command abbreviations bin = BINaries/dev = DEVices/etc = ETCetera/lib = LIBrary/proc = PROCesses/sbin = Superuser BINaries/tmp = TeMPorary/usr = Unix Shared Resources/ var = VARiable? FIFO = First In, First Out GRUB = GRand uniied Bootloader IFS = Internal Field Seperators LILO = LInux LOader MySQL = My is the name of the First author's daughter, SQL = Structured Query Language PHP = Personal Home Page Tools = PHP Hypertext Preprocessor PS = Prompt String Perl = "Pratical Extraction and Report Language" = "Pathologically eclecrubtic Bish Lister" Python named after the TV series Monty python's Flying Circus Tcl = Tool Command Lang Uage Tk = ToolKit VT = Video Terminal YaST = Yet Another Setup Tool apache = "a patchy" server apt = Advanced Packaging Tool ar = archiver as = ER er awk = "Aho Weibo erger and Kernighan" bash = Bourne Again SHell bc = Basic (Better) calculator bg = BackGround biff = author Heidi stettings in U. c. A dog in Berkely likes to scream at the postman. Cal = CALendar cat = CATenate cd = Change Directory chgrp = CHange GRouP chmod = CHange MODe chown = CHange OWNer chsh = CHange SHell cmp = compare cobra = Common Object Request Broker Architecture comm = common cp = CoPy cpio = CoPy In and Out cpp = C Pre Processor cron = Chronos Greek time cups = Common Unix Printing System cvs = Current Version System daemon = Disk And Execution MONitor dc = Desk Calculator dd = Disk Dump df = Disk Free diff = DIFFerence dmesg = diagnostic message du = Disk Usage ed = editor egrep = Extended GREP elf = Extensible Linking Format elm = ELectronic Mail emacs = Editor MACroS eval = EVALuate ex = EXtended exec = EXECute fd = file descriptors fg = ForeGround fgrep = Fixed GREP fmt = format fsck = File System ChecK fstab = FileSystem TABle fvwm = F *** Virtual Window Manager gawk = gnu awk gpg = GNU Privacy Guard groff = GNU troff hal = Hardware release action Layer joe = Joe's Own Editor ksh = Korn SHell lame = Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder lex = LEXical analyser lisp = LISt Processing = Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses ln = LiNk lpr = Line PRint ls = list lsof = LiSt Open Files m4 = Macro processor Version 4 man = MANual pages mawk = Mike brnan's AWK mc = Midnight Commander mkfs = MaKe FileSystem mknod = MaKe NODe motd = Message of The Day mozilla = MOsaic GodZILLa mtab = Mount TABle mv = MoVe nano = Nano's ANOther editor nawk = New AWK nl = Number of Lines nm = names nohup = No HangUP nroff = New ROFF od = Octal Dump passwd = PASSWorD pg = pager pico = PIne's message COmposition editor pine =" program for Internet News & Email "=" Pine is not Elm "ping = anthropomorphic and = Packet InterNet Grouper pirntcap = PRINTer CAPability popd = POP Directory pr = pre printf = PRINT Formatted ps = Processes status pty = pseudo do tty pushd = PUSH Directory pwd = Print Working Directory rc = runcom = run command, rc or plan9 shell rev = REVerse rm = ReMove rn = Read News roff = RunOFF rpm = RPM Package Manager = RedHat Package Manager rsh, rlogin, r = Remote rxvt = ouR XVT seamoneky = sed = Stream EDitor seq = SEQuence shar = SHell ARchive slrn = S-Lang rn ssh = Secure SHell ssl = Secure Sockets Layer stty = set TTY su = Substitute User svn = SubVersioN tar = Tape ARchive tcsh = tenex c shell tee = T (T-shaped pipe Interface) telnet = TEminaL over Network termcap = terminal capability terminfo = terminal information tex = σ χ {{≈, greek art tr = traslate troff = Typesetter new ROFF tsort = Topological SORT tty = TeleTypewriter twm = Tom's Window Manager tz = TimeZone udev = Userspace DEV ulimit = User's LIMIT umask = User's MASK uniq = UNIQue vi = VIsual = Very Inconvenient vim = Vi IMproved wall = write all wc = Word Count wine = WINE Is Not an Emulator xargs = eXtended ARGuments xdm = X Display Manager xlfd = X Logical Font Description xmms = X Multimedia System xrdb = X Resources DataBase xwd = X Window Dump yacc = yet another compiler