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Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:

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

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

BG — Background
PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
STRCMP — string compare
EXEC — Execute
TMP — Temporary
ALT — Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
CALLOC — cleared allocation
CMP — Compare
I — Intermediate
PASSWD — Password
SO — Shift-Out
PERL — Practical Extraction and Report Language
BOOTP — Bootstrap Protocol
FS — File Separator
NNTP — Network News Transfer Protocol
VAR — Variable
MV — Move
RCP — Remote Copy Protocol
TAR — Tape Archive
BSH — Bourne Shell
BS — Backspace
C — Cell
MAN — Manual
WM — Window Manager
STRPBRK — string pointer break
SIGILL — signal: illegal instruction
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
TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
ERRNO — error number
SED — Stream Editor
RLOGIN — Remote Login in Unix
LS — Listing
NTP — Network Time Protocol
CXX — C File
C — Cent
U — Underline
IOCTL — Input/Output Control
GOV — Government
STDIO.H — Standard Input/Output Header
LANG — language
CD — Change Directory
HP — Hewlett Packard's
TH — Table Header
GREP — Global Regular Expression Print
SIGUSR1 — signal: user-defined signal 1
STRLEN — string length

PPTP — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
MULTICS — Multiplexed Information and Computing System
SCANF — scan formatted
C — Cessna
SIGALRM — signal: alarm clock
C — Centavo
C — Centum
I — Italic
D — Daemon
FF — Form Feed
CTYPE.H — character types
STX — Start of Text
PS — Process Status
PROF — Profile
CDE — Common Desktop Environment
COM — Commercial
AELIG — AE ligature
PDP — Programmed Data Processor
CI — Check In
STTY — set tty
P — Paragraph
AIX — Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
SI — Shift In
US — Unit Separator
OL — Ordered List
SVR4 — System V Release 4 Unix
ETX — End of Text
LPC — Line Printer Control
ZIP — Ziv packer
TFTP — Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
V — Version
JAVA — [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
DIR — Directory
CSH — C Shell Programming
GS — Group Separator
NAK — Negative Acknowledge
B — Bold Text
SO — Shared Object
CTIME — convert time
LPRM — Line Printer Remove
ISATTY — is a tty
SIGHUP — signal: hangup
TGZ — tar gz
SIGEMT — signal: EMT instruction
LIB — Libra
RS — Record Separator
IMAP2 — Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
HREF — Hypertext Reference
LPD — Line Printer Daemon
DAEMON — Disk And Execution Monitor

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

RSH — Remote Shell
AS — Assembler
PING — not an acronym
ETB — End of Transmission Block
R — Remote
PUSHD — push directory
ELM — Electronic Mail for UNIX
SPRINTF — string print formatted
A — Archive
DLE — Data Link Escape
ENQ — Enquiry
CHDIR — Change Directory
NOHUP — no hang-up
FG — Foreground
SAR — System Activity Report
DEV — Devices
DWARF — Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
ULIMIT — user's limit
EDU — Educational Development Unit
CAL — Calendar
LP — Line Printer
TNS — Transparent Network Substrate
CHOWN — Change Owner
AR — Archiver
G — GNU C Compiler
A/UX — Apple Unix
SIGTTOU — signal: TTY output
ATOI — ASCII to Integer
TT — Teletype
FUSER — file user
TERMCAP — TERMinal CAPability
PTY — pseudo tty
BIFF — not an acronym
SUB — Substitute
DC1 — Device Control 1
DVI — device independant
SCO — Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
EDU — Educational Institutions
SIGSEGV — signal: segmentation violation
TR — Translate
BR — Break
XFD — X Font Display
TSH — Trusted shell
DIFF — Difference
MPEG — motion picture expert group
TZ — Time Zone
UTMP — temporary file with user information
BIN — binaries
SIGCHLD — Signal: child
VIM — Vi Improved

RCP — remote copy program
FSTAB — File System Table
STRTOL — string to long
EDU — Educational Disadvantage Unit
TERMINFO — Terminal Information
SRAND — seed random number generator
ROFF — run-off
DF — Disk Free
PRE — Preformatted
CHARGEN — character generator
SIGFPE — signal: floating point exception
FSCANF — file scan formatted
U — User
ISO — not an acronym
STDARG.H — standard arguments
TEX — Tau Epsilon Chi
QSORT — quick sort
ESAC — case
GZ — Gnu Zip
TBL — Table
LPR — Line Print
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
HPUX — Hewlett-Packard Unix
RANLIB — random access library
REGCMP — regular expression compile
SPC — Space
SDB — symbolic debugger
USR — Unix Shared Resources
CB — C-Beautifier
FTW — File Tree Walk
DU — Disk Usage
EVAL — Evaluate
SRC — Source
GLOB — Global
JSH — job-control shell
SBIN — superuser binaries
EXECLE — execl with environment
POVRAY — Persistence of Vision Raytracer
SUB — Subscript
PS1 — prompt string 1
PCC — Portable C Compiler
ED — Editorial Division
NN — No News
OCLOCK — O shaped clock
EDU — Educational Organizations
GNU — GNU is not Unix
USENET — User's Network
ELF — Extensible Linking Format
H — Header
CRON — Chronos

DIFF3 — differences of three files
DIRNAME — directory name
ADB — advanced debugger
PR — prepare
CHMOD — Change Mode
MINIX — miniature Unix
H — Header file
ETH — ?
NOM — Nomenclature
UNIQ — Unique
SH — Shell
RSH — Restricted Shell
REC — Recreation (ground)
LINT — not an acronym
EMACS — Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
SIGIO — Signal: input/output
IMAKE — interface to make
SIGURG — signal: urgent I/O condition
ED — Editorial Department
EXPR — Expression
NM — Names
MKFS — Make File system
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
L — lex
FMT — Format
MKNOD — make node
LD — Loader Domain
PBM — Portable Bitmap
LN — Link
CP — Copy (Unix command)
FTIO — fast tape input/output
RARP — Reverse ARP
CPIO — Copy In and Out
EGREP — extended grep
M4 — macro processor version 4
EMACS — Emacs makes any computer slow
AUML — A with umlaut
TK — Tcl-based Toolkit
RMT — Remote Magnetic Tape
SPOOL — Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
REGEX — regular expression execute
RZ — Receive Z-modem
S — server-parsed HTML
XWUD — X window un-dump
SZ — send Zmodem
Y — yacc
TELNET — TErminal over NETwork
O — object code
MALLOC — memory allocation
SBRK — segment break

TCLSH — Tcl shell
RMT — Raw Magnetic Tape
DC — Desk Calculator
TEE — T pipe fitting
Z — ?
FGREP — fixed-string grep
RMAIL — restricted mail
H1 — Header 1
XON — Transmission On
ESC — Escape
SUP — Superscript
BC — better calculator
TSORT — topological sort
LN — Link number
PICO — PINE Composer
XRDB — X resource database
PRINTCAP — printer capability
VPRINTF — varargs print formatted
STDDEF.H — standard definitions
VT — Vertical tabulator
PRS — Print Revision Summary
TROFF — typesetter roff
CHSH — change shell
COM — Commercial Operations Management
KMEM — kernel memory
BSEARCH — binary search
MIME — Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
FD — file descriptors
SIGCONT — signal: continue
LEX — Lexical Analyser
NOBR — No break
SIGWINCH — Signal: window changed
W3C — Word Wide Web Consortium
MEM — Memory
OD — Octal Dump
JPEG — joint pictures expert group
MOTD — motto of the day
LS — List Show
BTOA — Binary to ASCII
UL — Unsorted List
C89 — 1989 C compiler
NAWK — New AWK
LPP — licensed program products
WISH — windowing shell
SA — stub archive
— archive
EX — extended editor
RM — Remove
DL — Define List
CHGRP — Change Group

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