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Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:
URL
— Universal Resource Locator
FCNTL
— file control
UNISTD.H
— Unix standard
GETTY
— get tty
XENIX
— Xenos Unix
XML
— Extensible Markup Language
UNAME
— Unix name
ARP
— Address Resolution Protocol (ATM)
FTP
— File Transfer Protocol
ANSI
— American National Standards Institute, Inc.
CR
— Carriage Return
STDIO.H
— Standard Input/Output Header
SYN
— Synchronous
PS
— PostScript
IRC
— Internet Relay Chat
XARGS
— extended arguments
SIGEMT
— signal: EMT instruction
IP
— Internet Protocol
EXECVE
— execv with environment
VALIGN
— vertical alignment
XDPR
— X dump print
XMKMF
— X make makefile
VARARGS.H
— variable arguments
EM
— emphasize
QDAEMON
— queue daemon
ASCII
— American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
HALIGN
— horizontal alignment
SMTP
— Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
AACUTE
— A with accent acute
DEC
— Digital Equipment Corporation
STRCSPN
— string character span
ULIMIT
— user's limit
HTTP
— Hypertext Transfer Protocol
ACK
— Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
WWW
— World Wide Web
IBM
— International Business Machines Corporation
STRCHR
— string character
RFC
— Request For Comment
STRCAT
— string concatenate
PGP
— Pretty Good Privacy (encryption)
DHCP
— Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
SLIP
— Serial Line Interface Protocol
PNG
— Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
UDP
— User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related)
STRSTR
— string string
NFS
— Network File System
DIV
— Division
SIGABRT
— signal: abort
EOT
— End Of Transmission
RAID
— Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
SIGURG
— signal: urgent I/O condition
KBD
— Keyboard
SCSI
— Small Computer System Interface
PCLOSE
— process close
BSD
— Berkeley Software Distribution
GIF
— Graphic Interchange Format
NET
— Network
MIL
— Military
RFD
— Request For Discussion
FPRINTF
— file print formatted
MHS
— Message Handling System (electronic)
STRSPN
— string span
C
— Center
NL
— New Line
EXECVP
— execv with path search
YACC
— Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
SNMP
— Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
BOOTP
— Bootstrap Protocol
TCP
— Transmission Control Protocol
ALT
— Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
LANG
— language
CRC
— Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
PERL
— Practical Extraction and Report Language
STRRCHR
— string character
REALLOC
— re-allocate
ETC
— Et Cetera
BG
— Background
PPP
— Point-to-Point Protocol
HP
— Hewlett Packard's
ICMP
— Internet Control Message Protocol
CVS
— Concurrent Versions System
EXECLP
— execl with path search
AELIG
— AE ligature
SIGUSR1
— signal: user-defined signal 1
OSI
— Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
CALLOC
— cleared allocation
SO
— Shift-Out
SGML
— Standard Generalized Markup Language
RIP
— Routing Information Protocol
MV
— Move
LF
— Line Feed
STDLIB.H
— standard library
ETX
— End of Text
EXECV
— execute
STRCPY
— string copy
NBSP
— Non-Breaking Space
RCS
— Revision Control System
DCE
— Distributed Computing Environment
NIS
— Network Information System
STTY
— set tty
DUP
— Duplicate
RMDIR
— Remove Directory
PASSWD
— Password
SIGHUP
— signal: hangup
STRCMP
— string compare
HREF
— Hypertext Reference
NIC
— Network Information Center
TCL
— Tool Command Language
STRTOK
— string tokenize
ORG
— Organization
A
— Anchor
DNS
— Domain Name Server
BRK
— Break
SVR4
— System V Release 4 Unix
EXECL
— execute list
CC
— C Compiler
CTYPE.H
— character types
CAN
— Cancel
YP
— Yellow Pages
SIGTTOU
— signal: TTY output
V
— Version
FSCK
— File System Check
ATOB
— ASCII to Binary
STRLEN
— string length
TTT
— Tic Tac Toe
MAN
— Manual
FSF
— Free Software Foundation
WC
— Word Count
SPC
— Space
EXEC
— Execute
NNTP
— Network News Transfer Protocol
GREP
— Global Regular Expression Print
SIGALRM
— signal: alarm clock
C
— Close
SAMP
— Sample
HD
— Hard Disk
PPTP
— Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
SIGILL
— signal: illegal instruction
CAT
— Concatenate
SYNC
— Synchronize
CXX
— C File
STRPBRK
— string pointer break
RCP
— Remote Copy Protocol
C
— Century
SRAND
— seed random number generator
CDE
— Common Desktop Environment
NTP
— Network Time Protocol
IMG
— Image
CD
— Change Directory
TMP
— Temporary
TTY
— Teletype Telex Machine
RLOGIN
— Remote Login in Unix
VAR
— Variable
CMP
— Compare
DIR
— Directory
IOCTL
— Input/Output Control
USL
— UNIX System Laboratories
AIX
— Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
ERRNO
— error number
STX
— Start of Text
CHARGEN
— character generator
EQN
— Equation
U
— Underline
MWM
— Motif Window Manager
C
— Cell
SIGTSTP
— Signal: terminal stop
BEL
— Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
MEM
— Memory
PRINTF
— Print Formatted
SCANF
— scan formatted
LPD
— Line Printer Daemon
W3C
— Word Wide Web Consortium
TFTP
— Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
LPQ
— Line Printer Queue
XDM
— X Display Manager
SCCS
— Source Code Control System
CTIME
— convert time
WM
— Window Manager
SIGTTIN
— signal: TTY input
JAVA
— [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
TIFF
— Tag Image File Format
TAR
— Tape Archive
CI
— Check In
DAEMON
— Disk And Execution Monitor
OSF
— Open Software Foundation
FUSER
— file user
BSH
— Bourne Shell
COMM
— Common
FS
— File Separator
GOV
— Government
MULTICS
— Multiplexed Information and Computing System
LS
— Listing
ETB
— End of Transmission Block
PDP
— Programmed Data Processor
I
— Intermediate
LIB
— Libra
DC1
— Device Control 1
COM
— Commercial
PUSHD
— push directory
SI
— Shift In
FF
— Form Feed
SIGBUS
— signal: bus error
TGZ
— tar gz
SIGFPE
— signal: floating point exception
SOH
— Start Of Header
C
— Cent
DU
— Disk Usage
B
— Bold Text
US
— Unit Separator
KSH
— Korn Shell Programming
LS
— List-Serv
SIGCHLD
— Signal: child
VI
— Visual
SED
— Stream Editor
CSH
— C Shell Programming
UUCP
— Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
BS
— Backspace
DEL
— Delete
ARPA
— Advanced Research Project Agency's
NAK
— Negative Acknowledge
ISATTY
— is a tty
PTY
— pseudo tty
ATOF
— ASCII to Float
EVAL
— Evaluate
SSCANF
— string scan formatted
GLOB
— Global
TH
— Table Header
IMAP2
— Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
D
— Daemon
BASH
— Bourne Again Shell
NUL
— Null
C
— Cessna
C
— Centum
LORDER
— library order
PROF
— Profile
VT
— Video Terminal
SZLIG
— sz ligature
DEV
— Devices
OL
— Ordered List
LPR
— Line Print
P
— Paragraph
DWARF
— Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
ATOI
— ASCII to Integer
CCEDIL
— C with cedille
SIGTERM
— signal: terminate
ACIRC
— A with accent circonflexe
ZIP
— Ziv packer
BR
— Break
ENQ
— Enquiry
CP
— Copy (Unix command)
NM
— Names
UTMP
— temporary file with user information
ENV
— Environment
A/UX
— Apple Unix
C
— Centavo
R
— Remote
LI
— List Item
SUB
— Substitute
DLE
— Data Link Escape
SINIX
— Siemens Unix
I
— Italic
TCSH
— Tenex C Shell
LPC
— Line Printer Control
AGRAVE
— A with accent grave
FTOK
— file token
RS
— Record Separator
GS
— Group Separator
SPAM
— not an acronym
PING
— not an acronym
SU
— Superuser
CHDIR
— Change Directory
AS
— Assembler
REC
— Recreation (ground)
SCO
— Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
RSH
— Remote Shell
ROFF
— run-off
PS
— Process Status
CAL
— Calendar
ESAC
— case
SO
— Shared Object
AWK
— Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
FMT
— Format
DIFF
— Difference
EXECLE
— execl with environment
CHOWN
— Change Owner
PCC
— Portable C Compiler
CB
— C-Beautifier
UCB
— University of California at Berkeley's
LPRM
— Line Printer Remove
A
— Archive
ELM
— Electronic Mail for UNIX
TR
— Table Row
FG
— Foreground
TK
— Tcl-based Toolkit
EDU
— Educational Institutions
EDU
— Educational Disadvantage Unit
POPEN
— process open
TBL
— Table
CRON
— Chronos
LN
— Link
PAX
— Portable Archive Exchange
TR
— Translate
SIGCONT
— signal: continue
LINT
— not an acronym
SRC
— Source
TZ
— Time Zone
RC
— Run Commands (UNIX)
AR
— Archiver
BIFF
— not an acronym
VIM
— Vi Improved
EXPR
— Expression
TT
— Teletype
HT
— Horizontal Tabulator
SPRINTF
— string print formatted
TSH
— Trusted shell
NOM
— Nomenclature
DF
— Disk Free
EDU
— Educational Development Unit
FTW
— File Tree Walk
M4
— macro processor version 4
GZ
— Gnu Zip
STDDEF.H
— standard definitions
RSH
— Restricted Shell
JSH
— job-control shell
EDU
— Educational Organizations
BIN
— binaries
TNS
— Transparent Network Substrate
UNIQ
— Unique
SAR
— System Activity Report
SH
— Shell
NOHUP
— no hang-up
STDARG.H
— standard arguments
XFD
— X Font Display
CPIO
— Copy In and Out
LP
— Line Printer
XON
— Transmission On
LS
— Language Specialist
G
— GNU C Compiler
RANLIB
— random access library
LD
— Library Loader
FSTAB
— File System Table
ISO
— not an acronym
HPUX
— Hewlett-Packard Unix
TERMCAP
— TERMinal CAPability
U
— User
SIGWINCH
— Signal: window changed
MPEG
— motion picture expert group
XRDB
— X resource database
DIRNAME
— directory name
REGEX
— regular expression execute
NN
— No News
ADB
— advanced debugger
CHMOD
— Change Mode
RCP
— remote copy program
SIGIO
— Signal: input/output
POVRAY
— Persistence of Vision Raytracer
TEE
— T pipe fitting
PR
— prepare
GNU
— GNU is not Unix
DVI
— device independant
ED
— Editorial Division
STRTOL
— string to long
LINUX
— from Linus
FSCANF
— file scan formatted
RZ
— Receive Z-modem
TELNET
— TErminal over NETwork
MALLOC
— memory allocation
SDB
— symbolic debugger
CHSH
— change shell
SUB
— Subscript
TERMINFO
— Terminal Information
TEX
— Tau Epsilon Chi
USR
— Unix Shared Resources
LEX
— Lexical Analyser
COM
— Commercial Operations Management
MVDIR
— move directory
ED
— Editorial Department
CHGRP
— Change Group
USENET
— User's Network
SPOOL
— Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
PRE
— Preformatted
MINIX
— miniature Unix
SZ
— send Zmodem
SIGSEGV
— signal: segmentation violation
PINE
— PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
L
— lex
AUML
— A with umlaut
ID
— Identity
PBM
— Portable Bitmap
RM
— Remove
DIFF3
— differences of three files
OCLOCK
— O shaped clock
— archive
EMACS
— Emacs makes any computer slow
REGCMP
— regular expression compile
FGREP
— fixed-string grep
BC
— better calculator
ETH
— ?
SBIN
— superuser binaries
RMT
— Remote Magnetic Tape
BSEARCH
— binary search
TCLSH
— Tcl shell
PS1
— prompt string 1
VT
— Vertical tabulator
LD
— Loader Domain
H
— Header file
IMAKE
— interface to make
EGREP
— extended grep
S
— server-parsed HTML
DC
— Desk Calculator
PICO
— PINE Composer
ED
— Editorial Decision
MOTD
— motto of the day
XWD
— X Window Dump
EMACS
— Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
RARP
— Reverse ARP
WISH
— windowing shell
MKNOD
— make node
H1
— Header 1
QSORT
— quick sort
H
— Header
VPRINTF
— varargs print formatted
FTIO
— fast tape input/output
MKFS
— Make File system
MIME
— Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
ESC
— Escape
ELF
— Extensible Linking Format
SBRK
— segment break
LOGNAME
— log-in name
SIGSYS
— Signal: system call
LPP
— licensed program products
TSORT
— topological sort
OD
— Octal Dump
SA
— stub archive
IEEE
— Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
XWUD
— X window un-dump
INODE
— Index Node
DBX
— Extended Debugger
BTOA
— Binary to ASCII
UMASK
— user's mask
CO
— Check-Out
RMAIL
— restricted mail
PRS
— Print Revision Summary
SYSV
— System V
PRINTCAP
— printer capability
KMEM
— kernel memory
DL
— Define List
RMT
— Raw Magnetic Tape
O
— object code
TROFF
— typesetter roff
POPD
— pop directory
TD
— Table Data
SUP
— Superscript
FC
— Fix Command
LN
— Link number
XPM
— X Pixel Map
DD
— dictionary definition
LHARC
— Lempl-Huffman archiver
EX
— extended editor
TAB
— Tabulator
SIGINT
— signal: interruption
Y
— yacc
NAWK
— New AWK
Z
— ?
XOFF
— Transmission Off
XBM
— X BitMap Format
NL
— number lines
R
— Raw
SHAR
— SHell ARchive
RFO
— request for opinions
RMDEL
— remove delta
JPEG
— joint pictures expert group
LD
— link editor
LS
— List Show
C89
— 1989 C compiler
UL
— Unsorted List
WALL
— write all
NOBR
— No break
PWD
— print work directory
NROFF
— new roff
FD
— file descriptors
FD
— Floppy Diskette
DT
— Dictionary Term
XMP
— example
IFS
— internal field seperators
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