• ls -l|sort -k 5rn,5 -k 9fd,9 ;sort by size du ;disk usage for current directory and all subdirectories du -s ;disk usage summary of the current directory

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• if there is an uncompleted command/filename and tab completion dings at you, hitting control-d will show you the possibilities read the man on umask, brings up lots of commands setenv ;Show you your setting when entered alone. echo $VARIABLENAME ; outputs variable like, USER, or HOME jobs ; show which jobs are running, control-z puts a job in the background 4 is execute, 2 is write, 1 is read (aka octaganal) where 7 is read+write+execute, and 6 is execute+write which pico ;tells you where the program pico is located

  chmod -R 755 <directory name> ;sets all files in directory to readable by all chmod 755 *.* ;change all except directories to 755 umask ;shows what umask is set to, 777-umask output is default permissions

  • ; example, umask is 22, than default is 755
  umask nnn ; where nnn is a number 0 to 7, changing the default
  • ; place this command in your .login
  ls -GF ;lists directory contents with fancies like color and / for directories alias ls ls -GF ;if saved in your .cshrc file will macro ls to "ls -GF" source .cshrc ;will execute .cshrc consequently showing any new changes man intro ;a manual entry with an intro to unix commands, heh

  stty erase <hit your previously unfunctional backspace now> ;sets delete key

fg %jobnumber ; brings job of jobnumber number to the foreground