Common unix commands and programs on

pangea
Copyright Phillip Farrell. Last revision December 8, 2004

The following is a list of commonly used Unix programs and useful software installed on
pangea, the School of Earth Sciences AlphaServer DS20E computer running Tru64 Unix
version 4.0g.

Program listings are organized by general subject categories. Keys preceded by a ^ character
are CONTROL key combinations. On pangea, use the man program for more information on
these programs, for example,
man cp

To find a program not on this list (and there are hundreds), try the man program with the -k
option followed by a keyword, for example,
man -k tape
to find all on-line manual entries that refer to programs that work with tapes.

Pangea also has access to the hundreds of public domain software packages, including the
complete GNU software, that are compiled by the central systems group here on campus and
made available via the AFS network file system. All of these programs are also referenced by
the man program. You can see a list of these packages organized by category at the Index of
Pubsw Software web site.

Terminal control characters for C-shell

^h,
erase previously typed character
backspace
^u erase entire line of input so far typed
^d end-of-input for programs reading from terminal
^s stop printing on terminal
^q continue printing on terminal
^z suspend currently running job; restart with bg or fg
DEL, ^c kill currently running program and allow clean-up before exiting
^\ emergency kill of currently running program with no chance of cleanup

Also see a list of special characters that should not be used in filenames.

Login and authentication

login access computer; start interactive session

logout disconnect terminal session
change local login password; you must set a strong password that is not