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Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:

FCNTL — file control
SYN — Synchronous
EM — emphasize
XENIX — Xenos Unix
XML — Extensible Markup Language
FTP — File Transfer Protocol
ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
GETTY — get tty
XARGS — extended arguments
IRC — Internet Relay Chat
XDPR — X dump print
WWW — World Wide Web
VALIGN — vertical alignment
QDAEMON — queue daemon
IP — Internet Protocol
VARARGS.H — variable arguments
XMKMF — X make makefile
AACUTE — A with accent acute
UDP — User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related)
HALIGN — horizontal alignment
STRCAT — string concatenate
SMTP — Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
NFS — Network File System
HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
STRCHR — string character
BSD — Berkeley Software Distribution
PCLOSE — process close
URL — Universal Resource Locator
DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
STRSTR — string string
ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
CR — Carriage Return
RFC — Request For Comment
SCSI — Small Computer System Interface
SIGABRT — signal: abort
UNISTD.H — Unix standard
C — Center
STRCSPN — string character span
EXECVE — execv with environment
SLIP — Serial Line Interface Protocol
TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
DHCP — Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
NET — Network
FPRINTF — file print formatted
ACK — Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
MIL — Military
NIS — Network Information System
PGP — Pretty Good Privacy (encryption)
PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language

STRCPY — string copy
YACC — Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
RCS — Revision Control System
CC — C Compiler
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
STRSPN — string span
ICMP — Internet Control Message Protocol
KBD — Keyboard
PS — PostScript
MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
ARP — Address Resolution Protocol (ATM)
DIV — Division
RIP — Routing Information Protocol
NBSP — Non-Breaking Space
A — Anchor
HD — Hard Disk
YP — Yellow Pages
DCE — Distributed Computing Environment
RAID — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
CVS — Concurrent Versions System
IBM — International Business Machines Corporation
STRTOK — string tokenize
NL — New Line
WC — Word Count
STRRCHR — string character
ETC — Et Cetera
TCL — Tool Command Language
EXECVP — execv with path search
LF — Line Feed
NIC — Network Information Center
LPQ — Line Printer Queue
ORG — Organization
EXECV — execute
SYNC — Synchronize
FSF — Free Software Foundation
REALLOC — re-allocate
BRK — Break
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
EOT — End Of Transmission
RMDIR — Remove Directory
USL — UNIX System Laboratories
DUP — Duplicate
CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
RFD — Request For Discussion
STRCMP — string compare
BG — Background
C — Close
GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
CAT — Concatenate
CAN — Cancel

PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
EXEC — Execute
TMP — Temporary
STDLIB.H — standard library
EXECLP — execl with path search
CMP — Compare
PASSWD — Password
SO — Shift-Out
ALT — Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
CALLOC — cleared allocation
FS — File Separator
I — Intermediate
MV — Move
BOOTP — Bootstrap Protocol
BSH — Bourne Shell
NNTP — Network News Transfer Protocol
VAR — Variable
PERL — Practical Extraction and Report Language
BS — Backspace
C — Cell
WM — Window Manager
RCP — Remote Copy Protocol
STRPBRK — string pointer break
SIGILL — signal: illegal instruction
TAR — Tape Archive
BEL — Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
TTT — Tic Tac Toe
MWM — Motif Window Manager
C — Century
XDM — X Display Manager
ERRNO — error number
RLOGIN — Remote Login in Unix
SED — Stream Editor
MAN — Manual
LS — Listing
TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
C — Cent
U — Underline
TH — Table Header
GOV — Government
GREP — Global Regular Expression Print
NTP — Network Time Protocol
IOCTL — Input/Output Control
PPTP — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
MULTICS — Multiplexed Information and Computing System
C — Cessna
CD — Change Directory
STRLEN — string length
C — Centum
I — Italic

D — Daemon
SIGUSR1 — signal: user-defined signal 1
FF — Form Feed
PS — Process Status
PROF — Profile
SIGALRM — signal: alarm clock
C — Centavo
STX — Start of Text
CXX — C File
COM — Commercial
STDIO.H — Standard Input/Output Header
CTYPE.H — character types
AELIG — AE ligature
LANG — language
HP — Hewlett Packard's
CDE — Common Desktop Environment
CI — Check In
SCANF — scan formatted
PDP — Programmed Data Processor
P — Paragraph
SI — Shift In
US — Unit Separator
OL — Ordered List
LPC — Line Printer Control
SVR4 — System V Release 4 Unix
ZIP — Ziv packer
V — Version
AIX — Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
JAVA — [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
TFTP — Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
STTY — set tty
GS — Group Separator
ETX — End of Text
CSH — C Shell Programming
B — Bold Text
SO — Shared Object
CTIME — convert time
DIR — Directory
NAK — Negative Acknowledge
LPRM — Line Printer Remove
ISATTY — is a tty
TGZ — tar gz
RS — Record Separator
SIGEMT — signal: EMT instruction
IMAP2 — Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
LIB — Libra
SIGHUP — signal: hangup
TIFF — Tag Image File Format
OSF — Open Software Foundation
UNAME — Unix name

LS — List-Serv
LPD — Line Printer Daemon
SU — Superuser
TCSH — Tenex C Shell
DAEMON — Disk And Execution Monitor
SIGTSTP — Signal: terminal stop
POPEN — process open
SIGTTIN — signal: TTY input
EXECL — execute list
CCEDIL — C with cedille
EQN — Equation
HREF — Hypertext Reference
COMM — Common
AWK — Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
AGRAVE — A with accent grave
ATOB — ASCII to Binary
FSCK — File System Check
ACIRC — A with accent circonflexe
VT — Video Terminal
KSH — Korn Shell Programming
SCCS — Source Code Control System
SZLIG — sz ligature
ATOF — ASCII to Float
SSCANF — string scan formatted
VI — Visual
PAX — Portable Archive Exchange
DNS — Domain Name Server
RC — Run Commands (UNIX)
ENV — Environment
SPAM — not an acronym
BASH — Bourne Again Shell
LS — Language Specialist
LORDER — library order
FTOK — file token
UCB — University of California at Berkeley's
TR — Table Row
LI — List Item
NUL — Null
LD — Library Loader
PRINTF — Print Formatted
SIGTERM — signal: terminate
ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
HT — Horizontal Tabulator
SIGBUS — signal: bus error
IMG — Image
SAMP — Sample
SINIX — Siemens Unix
RSH — Remote Shell
PING — not an acronym
PUSHD — push directory

AS — Assembler
SPRINTF — string print formatted
ETB — End of Transmission Block
R — Remote
DEL — Delete
ELM — Electronic Mail for UNIX
CHDIR — Change Directory
NOHUP — no hang-up
FG — Foreground
SAR — System Activity Report
A — Archive
ENQ — Enquiry
ULIMIT — user's limit
CAL — Calendar
LP — Line Printer
DEV — Devices
DLE — Data Link Escape
SOH — Start Of Header
DWARF — Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
AR — Archiver
SIGTTOU — signal: TTY output
ATOI — ASCII to Integer
TERMCAP — TERMinal CAPability
TT — Teletype
SIGSEGV — signal: segmentation violation
TR — Translate
BR — Break
BIFF — not an acronym
SUB — Substitute
UUCP — Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
TZ — Time Zone
DVI — device independant
EDU — Educational Institutions
FUSER — file user
XFD — X Font Display
DIFF — Difference
DC1 — Device Control 1
CHOWN — Change Owner
STRTOL — string to long
G — GNU C Compiler
EDU — Educational Disadvantage Unit
A/UX — Apple Unix
SRAND — seed random number generator
SIGCHLD — Signal: child
DF — Disk Free
RCP — remote copy program
PRE — Preformatted
EDU — Educational Development Unit
TERMINFO — Terminal Information
BIN — binaries

VIM — Vi Improved
SIGFPE — signal: floating point exception
MPEG — motion picture expert group
FSCANF — file scan formatted
ISO — not an acronym
STDARG.H — standard arguments
SCO — Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
PTY — pseudo tty
U — User
TBL — Table
TEX — Tau Epsilon Chi
QSORT — quick sort
TSH — Trusted shell
RANLIB — random access library
GZ — Gnu Zip
ROFF — run-off
SDB — symbolic debugger
CHARGEN — character generator
ESAC — case
UTMP — temporary file with user information
LPR — Line Print
CB — C-Beautifier
SBIN — superuser binaries
FTW — File Tree Walk
TNS — Transparent Network Substrate
DU — Disk Usage
EVAL — Evaluate
SUB — Subscript
EXECLE — execl with environment
SPC — Space
GLOB — Global
PCC — Portable C Compiler
ED — Editorial Division
OCLOCK — O shaped clock
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
USR — Unix Shared Resources
JSH — job-control shell
ELF — Extensible Linking Format
H — Header
CRON — Chronos
DIFF3 — differences of three files
ADB — advanced debugger
PR — prepare
GNU — GNU is not Unix
H — Header file
NOM — Nomenclature
UNIQ — Unique
SRC — Source
REGCMP — regular expression compile
DIRNAME — directory name

PS1 — prompt string 1
HPUX — Hewlett-Packard Unix
USENET — User's Network
EDU — Educational Organizations
LINT — not an acronym
IMAKE — interface to make
SIGURG — signal: urgent I/O condition
FSTAB — File System Table
ED — Editorial Department
SH — Shell
EXPR — Expression
RSH — Restricted Shell
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
NM — Names
CHMOD — Change Mode
PBM — Portable Bitmap
EMACS — Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
CP — Copy (Unix command)
LN — Link
FTIO — fast tape input/output
RARP — Reverse ARP
CPIO — Copy In and Out
M4 — macro processor version 4
MKFS — Make File system
L — lex
AUML — A with umlaut
RMT — Remote Magnetic Tape
SPOOL — Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
POVRAY — Persistence of Vision Raytracer
REGEX — regular expression execute
XWUD — X window un-dump
EGREP — extended grep
SZ — send Zmodem
Y — yacc
MALLOC — memory allocation
MINIX — miniature Unix
REC — Recreation (ground)
FMT — Format
SBRK — segment break
TCLSH — Tcl shell
RZ — Receive Z-modem
RMT — Raw Magnetic Tape
O — object code
TK — Tcl-based Toolkit
BC — better calculator
ETH — ?
TSORT — topological sort
PICO — PINE Composer
XRDB — X resource database
PRINTCAP — printer capability

S — server-parsed HTML
NN — No News
STDDEF.H — standard definitions
VT — Vertical tabulator
SUP — Superscript
H1 — Header 1
KMEM — kernel memory
BSEARCH — binary search
TEE — T pipe fitting
MIME — Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
PRS — Print Revision Summary
TROFF — typesetter roff
CHSH — change shell
LEX — Lexical Analyser
COM — Commercial Operations Management
NOBR — No break
W3C — Word Wide Web Consortium
DC — Desk Calculator
SIGWINCH — Signal: window changed
OD — Octal Dump
JPEG — joint pictures expert group
EMACS — Emacs makes any computer slow
SIGCONT — signal: continue
MKNOD — make node
ESC — Escape
FD — file descriptors
MOTD — motto of the day
LD — Loader Domain
LS — List Show
SIGIO — Signal: input/output
BTOA — Binary to ASCII
UL — Unsorted List
C89 — 1989 C compiler
LPP — licensed program products
NAWK — New AWK
TELNET — TErminal over NETwork
RMAIL — restricted mail
WISH — windowing shell
— archive
EX — extended editor
Z — ?
SA — stub archive
RM — Remove
LN — Link number
VPRINTF — varargs print formatted
DL — Define List
CHGRP — Change Group
SIGINT — signal: interruption
UMASK — user's mask
INODE — Index Node

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