Basics of the MKS Toolkit - Mks.com

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................1
2 General Purpose Tools ............................................3
Listing a Directory ...............................................................................3
Simple File Manipulation ...................................................................4
cp .....................................................................................................4
rm ....................................................................................................5
mv ...................................................................................................5
Disk Usage ............................................................................................5
df .....................................................................................................6
du ....................................................................................................6
Displaying Data....................................................................................6
cat ....................................................................................................6
pg.....................................................................................................6
Options ..................................................................................................7
Help with Options ........................................................................8
Redirection ............................................................................................9
Pipes.....................................................................................................10
Wild Card Characters........................................................................10
3 Text Processing......................................................13
Editors..................................................................................................13
The vi Screen Editor ...................................................................13
Line Editors..................................................................................13
The sed Stream Editor................................................................14
Other Word Processing Commands ...............................................14
Creating Banners.........................................................................14
Columnation................................................................................15
Document Size.............................................................................15
4 Record-Keeping......................................................17
Sorting Records ..................................................................................18
Creating Sub-Lists..............................................................................21
Patterns.........................................................................................21
Differences Between grep & egrep...........................................23
Finding Changes to a File .................................................................24
Checking Whole Directories .....................................................25
Other Simple Commands .................................................................25
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