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Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:

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

MIL — Military
C — Center
DIV — Division
NET — Network
TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
STRSPN — string span
GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
EOT — End Of Transmission
KBD — Keyboard
AELIG — AE ligature
YACC — Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
ICMP — Internet Control Message Protocol
NL — New Line
CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
RFD — Request For Discussion
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
STRCPY — string copy
PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
PERL — Practical Extraction and Report Language
CVS — Concurrent Versions System
NIS — Network Information System
RCS — Revision Control System
DCE — Distributed Computing Environment
SIGURG — signal: urgent I/O condition
ETC — Et Cetera
RIP — Routing Information Protocol
DUP — Duplicate
STRRCHR — string character
EXECLP — execl with path search
CALLOC — cleared allocation
REALLOC — re-allocate
YP — Yellow Pages
ALT — Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
LANG — language
CC — C Compiler
EXECVP — execv with path search
RMDIR — Remove Directory
NBSP — Non-Breaking Space
ORG — Organization
TCL — Tool Command Language
BOOTP — Bootstrap Protocol
LF — Line Feed
STRTOK — string tokenize
A — Anchor
HP — Hewlett Packard's
TTT — Tic Tac Toe
EXECV — execute

BG — Background
WC — Word Count
NIC — Network Information Center
BRK — Break
STDLIB.H — standard library
STRCMP — string compare
ATOB — ASCII to Binary
HD — Hard Disk
FSF — Free Software Foundation
STTY — set tty
PASSWD — Password
MV — Move
UNAME — Unix name
CD — Change Directory
EXEC — Execute
HREF — Hypertext Reference
SYNC — Synchronize
CAN — Cancel
IMG — Image
NNTP — Network News Transfer Protocol
CAT — Concatenate
STRLEN — string length
CXX — C File
ETX — End of Text
PPTP — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
USL — UNIX System Laboratories
C — Close
TMP — Temporary
SIGALRM — signal: alarm clock
CTYPE.H — character types
IOCTL — Input/Output Control
RCP — Remote Copy Protocol
MAN — Manual
LPQ — Line Printer Queue
SVR4 — System V Release 4 Unix
STX — Start of Text
CMP — Compare
SIGHUP — signal: hangup
SIGILL — signal: illegal instruction
U — Underline
VAR — Variable
TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
NTP — Network Time Protocol
STRPBRK — string pointer break
C — Cell
CDE — Common Desktop Environment
DNS — Domain Name Server
C — Century
MWM — Motif Window Manager
RLOGIN — Remote Login in Unix

SIGUSR1 — signal: user-defined signal 1
W3C — Word Wide Web Consortium
TAR — Tape Archive
GREP — Global Regular Expression Print
BSH — Bourne Shell
BEL — Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
SO — Shift-Out
I — Intermediate
JAVA — [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
SCANF — scan formatted
FS — File Separator
ERRNO — error number
WM — Window Manager
GOV — Government
BS — Backspace
AIX — Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
DIR — Directory
XDM — X Display Manager
FSCK — File System Check
TFTP — Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
LS — Listing
ULIMIT — user's limit
TGZ — tar gz
CI — Check In
LIB — Libra
EXECL — execute list
COM — Commercial
SED — Stream Editor
C — Cent
LS — List-Serv
MULTICS — Multiplexed Information and Computing System
NAK — Negative Acknowledge
OSF — Open Software Foundation
TH — Table Header
FF — Form Feed
PUSHD — push directory
CTIME — convert time
TIFF — Tag Image File Format
CSH — C Shell Programming
LPD — Line Printer Daemon
SCCS — Source Code Control System
D — Daemon
DC1 — Device Control 1
PDP — Programmed Data Processor
C — Cessna
US — Unit Separator
SI — Shift In
C — Centum
ACIRC — A with accent circonflexe
SIGTTIN — signal: TTY input

ETB — End of Transmission Block
ISATTY — is a tty
I — Italic
OL — Ordered List
CHARGEN — character generator
P — Paragraph
KSH — Korn Shell Programming
EQN — Equation
C — Centavo
PROF — Profile
SIGTTOU — signal: TTY output
IMAP2 — Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
SIGTSTP — Signal: terminal stop
PS — Process Status
PRINTF — Print Formatted
GS — Group Separator
DAEMON — Disk And Execution Monitor
COMM — Common
ZIP — Ziv packer
LPC — Line Printer Control
FTOK — file token
UTMP — temporary file with user information
SSCANF — string scan formatted
V — Version
VI — Visual
CCEDIL — C with cedille
NUL — Null
R — Remote
B — Bold Text
AWK — Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
SPC — Space
RS — Record Separator
ATOF — ASCII to Float
LORDER — library order
ENQ — Enquiry
LPRM — Line Printer Remove
SIGBUS — signal: bus error
SAMP — Sample
PTY — pseudo tty
BASH — Bourne Again Shell
SO — Shared Object
SU — Superuser
PAX — Portable Archive Exchange
DEL — Delete
ROFF — run-off
SINIX — Siemens Unix
ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
SZLIG — sz ligature
LPR — Line Print
TCSH — Tenex C Shell

AGRAVE — A with accent grave
BR — Break
POPEN — process open
LI — List Item
ENV — Environment
VT — Video Terminal
DLE — Data Link Escape
SPAM — not an acronym
SUB — Substitute
UUCP — Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
SIGTERM — signal: terminate
DWARF — Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
REC — Recreation (ground)
RC — Run Commands (UNIX)
EVAL — Evaluate
SOH — Start Of Header
DEV — Devices
SRAND — seed random number generator
SCO — Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
FUSER — file user
HT — Horizontal Tabulator
EDU — Educational Disadvantage Unit
UCB — University of California at Berkeley's
TR — Table Row
SIGCHLD — Signal: child
RSH — Remote Shell
EDU — Educational Development Unit
CAL — Calendar
CB — C-Beautifier
LINT — not an acronym
PING — not an acronym
ELM — Electronic Mail for UNIX
DU — Disk Usage
NOHUP — no hang-up
TSH — Trusted shell
SPRINTF — string print formatted
ATOI — ASCII to Integer
M4 — macro processor version 4
EDU — Educational Institutions
A — Archive
LS — Language Specialist
DIFF — Difference
SIGFPE — signal: floating point exception
BIFF — not an acronym
LD — Library Loader
TZ — Time Zone
TBL — Table
CHOWN — Change Owner
A/UX — Apple Unix
VIM — Vi Improved

FG — Foreground
FMT — Format
SRC — Source
TT — Teletype
AS — Assembler
XON — Transmission On
TNS — Transparent Network Substrate
GZ — Gnu Zip
TR — Translate
BIN — binaries
MPEG — motion picture expert group
UNIQ — Unique
EXECLE — execl with environment
FTW — File Tree Walk
DVI — device independant
SAR — System Activity Report
LP — Line Printer
EDU — Educational Organizations
CHDIR — Change Directory
ESAC — case
RANLIB — random access library
NOM — Nomenclature
DF — Disk Free
TERMCAP — TERMinal CAPability
AR — Archiver
STDDEF.H — standard definitions
XFD — X Font Display
ISO — not an acronym
TEX — Tau Epsilon Chi
NM — Names
G — GNU C Compiler
JSH — job-control shell
SDB — symbolic debugger
STRTOL — string to long
RCP — remote copy program
MVDIR — move directory
DIRNAME — directory name
GLOB — Global
RSH — Restricted Shell
ED — Editorial Division
U — User
FSTAB — File System Table
SH — Shell
EXPR — Expression
SIGSEGV — signal: segmentation violation
USR — Unix Shared Resources
CRON — Chronos
SUB — Subscript
ADB — advanced debugger
HPUX — Hewlett-Packard Unix

CP — Copy (Unix command)
STDARG.H — standard arguments
TERMINFO — Terminal Information
POVRAY — Persistence of Vision Raytracer
MEM — Memory
L — lex
MALLOC — memory allocation
TK — Tcl-based Toolkit
USENET — User's Network
SBIN — superuser binaries
TELNET — TErminal over NETwork
GNU — GNU is not Unix
CHMOD — Change Mode
SBRK — segment break
RMT — Remote Magnetic Tape
CPIO — Copy In and Out
PRE — Preformatted
PCC — Portable C Compiler
NN — No News
OCLOCK — O shaped clock
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
LN — Link
FSCANF — file scan formatted
EGREP — extended grep
REGEX — regular expression execute
CHSH — change shell
ETH — ?
SPOOL — Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
SIGIO — Signal: input/output
ED — Editorial Department
PS1 — prompt string 1
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
FGREP — fixed-string grep
PR — prepare
QSORT — quick sort
H — Header
LEX — Lexical Analyser
IMAKE — interface to make
DIFF3 — differences of three files
REGCMP — regular expression compile
PICO — PINE Composer
RARP — Reverse ARP
TEE — T pipe fitting
WISH — windowing shell
ELF — Extensible Linking Format
LD — Loader Domain
XRDB — X resource database
H — Header file
S — server-parsed HTML
EMACS — Emacs makes any computer slow

AUML — A with umlaut
MINIX — miniature Unix
MOTD — motto of the day
PBM — Portable Bitmap
EMACS — Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
COM — Commercial Operations Management
TCLSH — Tcl shell
FTIO — fast tape input/output
RMT — Raw Magnetic Tape
SIGWINCH — Signal: window changed
MKFS — Make File system
ESC — Escape
H1 — Header 1
XWD — X Window Dump
TSORT — topological sort
PRINTCAP — printer capability
RZ — Receive Z-modem
ED — Editorial Decision
ID — Identity
MKNOD — make node
BC — better calculator
DC — Desk Calculator
OD — Octal Dump
Z — ?
TROFF — typesetter roff
LN — Link number
XWUD — X window un-dump
Y — yacc
NAWK — New AWK
MIME — Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
VT — Vertical tabulator
RMAIL — restricted mail
BSEARCH — binary search
VPRINTF — varargs print formatted
SZ — send Zmodem
O — object code
LPP — licensed program products
POPD — pop directory
SUP — Superscript
KMEM — kernel memory
BTOA — Binary to ASCII
PRS — Print Revision Summary
C89 — 1989 C compiler
SIGSYS — Signal: system call
SIGINT — signal: interruption
CHGRP — Change Group
JPEG — joint pictures expert group
CO — Check-Out
SIGCONT — signal: continue
XPM — X Pixel Map

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