A Minimal Set of UNIX Commands 

The following is a very small but useful subset of UNIX operating system 
commands.  Throughout, fname stands for the name of a file.

exit			Logs you off the system:  ALWAYS  log off 
			before leaving!
passwd			Lets you change your password.
man  command name	HELP:  explains command name (like   man minitab  ).
ls			Lists file names.
less fname		Displays fname on screen, one page at a time. 
                        q to quit, space bar for next page
laser  fname		Prints hard copy on the laser printer
draft  fname		Prints hard copy on the dot matrix printer  
rm  fname		Removes fname, erases it forever.
cp  fname1  fname2	Copies fname1 to fname2   .
mv  fname1  fname2	Moves (renames) fname1 to fname2  .
pico  fname		Starts the PICO text editor, editing fname (can be 
			a new file)

minitab			Gets you into MINITAB
Splus			Gets you into S-Plus
spss -m < fname.sps > fname.lis
			Executes SPSS commands in fname.sps, yielding output
                        in fname.lis.

spss  -m  -s  10m  fname1  >  fname2	Same as above, with 10 MB of workspace.

sas  fname		Executes SAS commands in fname.sas, yielding fname.log
			and (if no errors)  fname.lst   This is a local 
			Erindale command.
ps			Shows active processes.
kill  -9  #		Kills process (job) number #  :  Sometimes you must 
			do this when you can't log off because there are 
			stopped jobs.
lynx			Gets you into the text based web browser lynx.