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 Unified Bootloader IFS = Internal Field seperators LILO = LInux LOader MySQL = My is the first name of the 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 eclectic rubbish Lister" Python is named after the TV drama Monty Python ' s Flying Circus TCL = Tool Command Language Tk = ToolKit VT = Video Terminal YaST = yet another Setup Tool Apache = "A patchy" server Apt = Advanced Packaging Tool AR = archiver As = Assembler awk = "Aho Weiberger and Kernighan" The first letter of the last name of three authors bash = Bourne Again SHell BC = Basic (Better) Calculator BG = BackGround Biff = author Heidi Stettner A dog in u.c.berkely and likes to bark 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 Abstraction 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 Brennan 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 & E-mail" = "Pine is not ELM" ping = quasi-sound and = Packet InterNet grouper Pirntcap = PRINTer CAPability POPD = POP Directory PR = Pre printf = PRINT Formatted PS = Processes Status Pty = Pseudo 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 in Rvim RXVT = Our XVT Seamoneky = i 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 water pipe interface) telnet = teminal over Network Termcap = terminal capability Terminfo = Terminal information Tex =τ?χνη abbreviation, 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 isn't 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 compiler Fish = the friendly Interactive SHell Su = Switch User MIME = Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ECMA = European Computer Manufacturers Association |