Basics of the MKS Toolkit - Mks.com

General Purpose Tools
df
du
Displaying Data
cat
pg
You can use df to display the amount of free disk space on the device
that contains your current working directory. The output of df might
look like
C: (C:/) 1952/16936
The C: at the beginning of the line stands for your current working
directory. After this comes the name of the device that holds this
directory (in this case, C:), then two numbers separated by a slash.
The first number tells how many unused blocks the device has; the
second gives the total number of blocks on the device.
If you specify a directory, df displays the free space remaining on the
device that contains the given directory. You can also give a specific
device name, as in
df a:
The du (disk usage) command displays how many blocks are used by a
given directory and its subdirectories. du lists the number of disk
blocks used by each directory under your current working directory,
plus the total number of blocks occupied by your current working
directory. Because this information is given in blocks, numbers are
smaller and easier to compare.
You can also specify a directory name to du to display the space used
by that directory and all its contents.
The MKS Toolkit cat and pg commands let you view the contents of
any file for which you have read permission.
The cat command displays the contents of one or more files. For
example,
cat file1 file2 file3...
displays the contents of file1, then file2, and so on. cat does not pause
at any point unless you press CTRL-S (or the PAUSE key, if your
keyboard has one). After pausing with CTRL-S, you can resume
printing by pressing CTRL-Q.
To make it easier for you to read large files, the MKS Toolkit also
supplies the pg command.
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