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Common Commands & Options

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at 10:15pm   Schedules commands to run at 10:15pm on the current date.  
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at 10:15pm July 15   Schedules commands to run at at 10:15pm on July 15  
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at midnight   Schedules commands to run at midnight on the current date.  
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at noon July 15   Schedules commands to run at noon on July 15.  
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at teatime   Schedules commands to run at 4:00pm on the current date.  
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at tomorrow   Schedules commands to run the next day.  
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at now + 5 minutes   Schedules commands to run in 5 minutes.  
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at now + 10 hours   Schedules commands to run in 10 hours.  
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at now + 4 days   Schedules commands to run in 4 days.  
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at now + 2 weeks   Schedules commands to run in 2 weeks.  
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at now at batch   Schedules commands to run immediately.  
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at 9:00am 01/30/2011 at 9:00am 01032011 at 9:00am 03.01.2011   Schedules commands to run at 9am on January 3, 2011.  
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SIGHUP (1)   Hang-up signal. Stops a process, then restarts it with the same PID.  
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SIGINT (2)   Sends an interrupt signal to a process. One of the weakest kill signals but works most of the time. Ctrl+c is to kill a process is actually a SIGINT.  
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SIGQUIT (3)   Known as a Core Dump, this quit signal terminates a process by taking the info in memory and saving it to a file called core on the hard disk in the current working directory. Use Ctrl+\ to send a SIGQUIT signal to a process currently running.  
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SIGTERM (15)   This Software Termination signal is the most common kill signal used by programs to kill other processes. It is the default kill signal used by the kill command.  
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SIGKILL (9)   Known as the absolute kill signal, this signal forces the Linux kernel to stop executing the process by sending the processes resources to a special device file called /dev/null  
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ls –a   Lists all filenames.  
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ls --all   Lists all filenames.  
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ls –A   Lists most filenames (excludes the . and .. special files).  
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ls --almost-all   Lists most filenames (excludes the . and .. special files).  
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ls –C   Lists filenames in column format.  
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ls --color=n   Lists filenames without color.  
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ls –d   Lists directory names instead of their contents.  
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ls --directory   Lists directory names instead of their contents.  
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ls –f   Lists filenames without sorting.  
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ls –F   Lists filenames classified by file type.  
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ls --classify   Lists filenames classified by file type.  
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ls --full-time   Lists filenames in long format and displays the full modification time.  
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ls –l   Lists filenames in long format.  
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ls –lh   Lists filenames in long format with human-readable (easy-to-read) file sizes.  
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ls –l --human-readable   Lists filenames in long format with human-readable (easy-to-read) file sizes.  
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ls -lG   List filenames in long format but omits the group information.  
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ls –l --no-group   Lists filenames in long format but omits the group information.  
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ls –o   Lists filenames in long format but omits the group information.  
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ls –r   Lists filenames reverse sorted.  
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ls --recursive   Lists filenames reverse sorted.  
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ls –s   Lists filenames and their associated size in kilobytes (KB).  
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ls –S   Lists filenames sorted by file size.  
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ls –t   Lists filenames sorted by modification time.  
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ls –U   Lists filenames without sorting.  
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ls –x   Lists filenames in rows rather than in columns.  
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