This document lists basic commands and compression/archiving commands for AIX systems. It describes commands for displaying connected users and current user (who, whoami), viewing manuals (man), checking disk usage (df, du), changing file system attributes (chfs), changing users (su), sending files to the printer spool (lp, lpr), downloading files (wget), checking last reboot time (lastreboot), compressing files (gzip, zip, tar), archiving files with tar, viewing command history (history), numbering lines in a file (nl), and checking subsystem status (lssrc).
This document lists basic commands and compression/archiving commands for AIX systems. It describes commands for displaying connected users and current user (who, whoami), viewing manuals (man), checking disk usage (df, du), changing file system attributes (chfs), changing users (su), sending files to the printer spool (lp, lpr), downloading files (wget), checking last reboot time (lastreboot), compressing files (gzip, zip, tar), archiving files with tar, viewing command history (history), numbering lines in a file (nl), and checking subsystem status (lssrc).
This document lists basic commands and compression/archiving commands for AIX systems. It describes commands for displaying connected users and current user (who, whoami), viewing manuals (man), checking disk usage (df, du), changing file system attributes (chfs), changing users (su), sending files to the printer spool (lp, lpr), downloading files (wget), checking last reboot time (lastreboot), compressing files (gzip, zip, tar), archiving files with tar, viewing command history (history), numbering lines in a file (nl), and checking subsystem status (lssrc).
df Display information about total space and available space on a file system
du Display the file space usage
chfs Change attributes of a file system
o chfs -a size=+500M /usr
su Change the current user connected
o su - user
lp Sent a file to the spooler
lpr Sent a file to the spooler
wget Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. o
wget -b ftp://ftp.arcudi.org/file.tar.gz Download the file.tar.gz in backgroup
lastreboot See when the system is rebooted the last time
AIX Compress and Archive Commands
gzip Compress a file
o gzip file.tar Create a compressed file file.tar.gz o gzip -d Unpack a *.gz file Uncompress a file.tar.gz file o tar cvf - directory/ | gzip > toto.tar.gz Create a compressed tar file in a single command
zip Compress a file
tar Archive a file
o tar -tvf file Verify the content of a tar file o tar -xvf file Unpack a tar file o tar -c file repertory Create a tar file o tar -cvfX file.tar exclude.txt /tmp/toto/ Create a tar file exluding directories that are present in the exclude.txt file o tar cvf - directory/ | gzip > toto.tar.gz Create a compressed tar file in a single command