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Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:

SYN — Synchronous
FCNTL — file control
EM — emphasize
FTP — File Transfer Protocol
GETTY — get tty
XML — Extensible Markup Language
WWW — World Wide Web
IRC — Internet Relay Chat
XENIX — Xenos Unix
ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
UDP — User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related)
STRCAT — string concatenate
PCLOSE — process close
NFS — Network File System
SMTP — Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
IP — Internet Protocol
STRCHR — string character
HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
SIGABRT — signal: abort
SCSI — Small Computer System Interface
STRSTR — string string
CR — Carriage Return
C — Center
EXECVE — execv with environment
RFC — Request For Comment
TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
NIS — Network Information System
UNISTD.H — Unix standard
DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
MIL — Military
STRCSPN — string character span
NET — Network
DHCP — Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
SLIP — Serial Line Interface Protocol
ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
YACC — Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
CC — C Compiler
STRSPN — string span
SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language
YP — Yellow Pages
STRCPY — string copy
NBSP — Non-Breaking Space
A — Anchor
RCS — Revision Control System
HD — Hard Disk
URL — Universal Resource Locator
PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
ICMP — Internet Control Message Protocol
BSD — Berkeley Software Distribution
XARGS — extended arguments

PS — PostScript
RIP — Routing Information Protocol
DCE — Distributed Computing Environment
STRTOK — string tokenize
WC — Word Count
ACK — Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
KBD — Keyboard
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
STRRCHR — string character
CVS — Concurrent Versions System
SYNC — Synchronize
NL — New Line
TCL — Tool Command Language
ARP — Address Resolution Protocol (ATM)
PGP — Pretty Good Privacy (encryption)
LF — Line Feed
VALIGN — vertical alignment
NIC — Network Information Center
LPQ — Line Printer Queue
DIV — Division
XDPR — X dump print
ORG — Organization
SO — Shift-Out
DUP — Duplicate
RMDIR — Remove Directory
CAN — Cancel
MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
EXECV — execute
EXEC — Execute
TMP — Temporary
BRK — Break
USL — UNIX System Laboratories
CAT — Concatenate
FS — File Separator
EXECVP — execv with path search
CMP — Compare
I — Intermediate
ETC — Et Cetera
RAID — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
FSF — Free Software Foundation
FPRINTF — file print formatted
PASSWD — Password
C — Close
BG — Background
AACUTE — A with accent acute
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
STRCMP — string compare
MV — Move
C — Cell
WM — Window Manager

IBM — International Business Machines Corporation
TAR — Tape Archive
REALLOC — re-allocate
ALT — Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
BSH — Bourne Shell
EOT — End Of Transmission
PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
RFD — Request For Discussion
LS — Listing
BS — Backspace
HALIGN — horizontal alignment
TTT — Tic Tac Toe
CALLOC — cleared allocation
QDAEMON — queue daemon
VARARGS.H — variable arguments
RCP — Remote Copy Protocol
EXECLP — execl with path search
XDM — X Display Manager
MWM — Motif Window Manager
STRPBRK — string pointer break
CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
NNTP — Network News Transfer Protocol
GOV — Government
C — Century
I — Italic
C — Cent
VAR — Variable
C — Cessna
GREP — Global Regular Expression Print
ERRNO — error number
C — Centavo
C — Centum
PS — Process Status
CXX — C File
STDLIB.H — standard library
CI — Check In
D — Daemon
TH — Table Header
PROF — Profile
P — Paragraph
SI — Shift In
XMKMF — X make makefile
FF — Form Feed
MULTICS — Multiplexed Information and Computing System
NTP — Network Time Protocol
COM — Commercial
AELIG — AE ligature
SED — Stream Editor
BOOTP — Bootstrap Protocol
V — Version

MAN — Manual
TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
US — Unit Separator
SCANF — scan formatted
CD — Change Directory
GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
STX — Start of Text
IOCTL — Input/Output Control
PPTP — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
B — Bold Text
OL — Ordered List
SIGILL — signal: illegal instruction
STTY — set tty
STRLEN — string length
LPC — Line Printer Control
SO — Shared Object
PERL — Practical Extraction and Report Language
SIGUSR1 — signal: user-defined signal 1
STDIO.H — Standard Input/Output Header
ZIP — Ziv packer
GS — Group Separator
LPRM — Line Printer Remove
PDP — Programmed Data Processor
SIGALRM — signal: alarm clock
CDE — Common Desktop Environment
CTIME — convert time
RS — Record Separator
BEL — Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
RLOGIN — Remote Login in Unix
CSH — C Shell Programming
SVR4 — System V Release 4 Unix
HP — Hewlett Packard's
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)
DIR — Directory
TGZ — tar gz
SIGTTIN — signal: TTY input
LIB — Libra
LS — Language Specialist
LS — List-Serv
ISATTY — is a tty
SIGHUP — signal: hangup
CCEDIL — C with cedille
SIGEMT — signal: EMT instruction
EXECL — execute list
SIGTSTP — Signal: terminal stop
SSCANF — string scan formatted
NAK — Negative Acknowledge
OSF — Open Software Foundation

UNAME — Unix name
IMAP2 — Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
LD — Library Loader
AWK — Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
TCSH — Tenex C Shell
DAEMON — Disk And Execution Monitor
SZLIG — sz ligature
PAX — Portable Archive Exchange
SAMP — Sample
CTYPE.H — character types
TIFF — Tag Image File Format
POPEN — process open
SU — Superuser
VI — Visual
UCB — University of California at Berkeley's
ETX — End of Text
LORDER — library order
ENV — Environment
LANG — language
VT — Video Terminal
SCCS — Source Code Control System
PUSHD — push directory
FTOK — file token
ATOB — ASCII to Binary
R — Remote
LPD — Line Printer Daemon
IMG — Image
KSH — Korn Shell Programming
HREF — Hypertext Reference
TR — Table Row
CHDIR — Change Directory
EQN — Equation
SIGTERM — signal: terminate
SINIX — Siemens Unix
HT — Horizontal Tabulator
DNS — Domain Name Server
BASH — Bourne Again Shell
FG — Foreground
AS — Assembler
LP — Line Printer
ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
DWARF — Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
ACIRC — A with accent circonflexe
AGRAVE — A with accent grave
SAR — System Activity Report
ATOF — ASCII to Float
FSCK — File System Check
ATOI — ASCII to Integer
DVI — device independant
ULIMIT — user's limit

SIGSEGV — signal: segmentation violation
SPRINTF — string print formatted
ELM — Electronic Mail for UNIX
CAL — Calendar
TR — Translate
SIGBUS — signal: bus error
DIFF — Difference
PRE — Preformatted
COMM — Common
ETB — End of Transmission Block
NUL — Null
RC — Run Commands (UNIX)
EDU — Educational Institutions
RSH — Remote Shell
EDU — Educational Disadvantage Unit
G — GNU C Compiler
DEV — Devices
A/UX — Apple Unix
DLE — Data Link Escape
SIGTTOU — signal: TTY output
U — Underline
BR — Break
SPAM — not an acronym
BIFF — not an acronym
STRTOL — string to long
A — Archive
VIM — Vi Improved
DF — Disk Free
RCP — remote copy program
TZ — Time Zone
NOHUP — no hang-up
EDU — Educational Development Unit
TEX — Tau Epsilon Chi
ROFF — run-off
LI — List Item
UUCP — Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
AR — Archiver
QSORT — quick sort
SBIN — superuser binaries
UTMP — temporary file with user information
SIGFPE — signal: floating point exception
TBL — Table
CHOWN — Change Owner
FUSER — file user
TERMCAP — TERMinal CAPability
USR — Unix Shared Resources
PING — not an acronym
SRAND — seed random number generator
SIGCHLD — Signal: child
U — User

STDARG.H — standard arguments
TT — Teletype
AUML — A with umlaut
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
DEL — Delete
DIFF3 — differences of three files
OCLOCK — O shaped clock
PR — prepare
EDU — Educational Organizations
RANLIB — random access library
TNS — Transparent Network Substrate
ENQ — Enquiry
DC1 — Device Control 1
IMAKE — interface to make
UNIQ — Unique
PS1 — prompt string 1
SPC — Space
SCO — Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
GLOB — Global
SZ — send Zmodem
M4 — macro processor version 4
TERMINFO — Terminal Information
CHMOD — Change Mode
MPEG — motion picture expert group
SOH — Start Of Header
EVAL — Evaluate
EXECLE — execl with environment
SUB — Substitute
REGCMP — regular expression compile
SUB — Subscript
NM — Names
MALLOC — memory allocation
REC — Recreation (ground)
HPUX — Hewlett-Packard Unix
H — Header file
TSH — Trusted shell
FTW — File Tree Walk
POVRAY — Persistence of Vision Raytracer
SIGURG — signal: urgent I/O condition
XWUD — X window un-dump
SH — Shell
ISO — not an acronym
MIME — Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
JSH — job-control shell
XFD — X Font Display
PTY — pseudo tty
BIN — binaries
CRON — Chronos
NOM — Nomenclature
RMT — Remote Magnetic Tape

GZ — Gnu Zip
LN — Link
TCLSH — Tcl shell
EXPR — Expression
PCC — Portable C Compiler
PRINTF — Print Formatted
RMT — Raw Magnetic Tape
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
O — object code
ED — Editorial Division
ESAC — case
TSORT — topological sort
SRC — Source
CP — Copy (Unix command)
XRDB — X resource database
FSTAB — File System Table
FTIO — fast tape input/output
Y — yacc
MKFS — Make File system
VT — Vertical tabulator
LINT — not an acronym
BC — better calculator
H — Header
MOTD — motto of the day
DU — Disk Usage
FSCANF — file scan formatted
DIRNAME — directory name
LPR — Line Print
NOBR — No break
SIGWINCH — Signal: window changed
NN — No News
L — lex
CB — C-Beautifier
PRS — Print Revision Summary
TROFF — typesetter roff
MINIX — miniature Unix
LD — Loader Domain
PBM — Portable Bitmap
EMACS — Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
SPOOL — Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
PRINTCAP — printer capability
BTOA — Binary to ASCII
PICO — PINE Composer
ED — Editorial Department
REGEX — regular expression execute
RARP — Reverse ARP
S — server-parsed HTML
NAWK — New AWK
JPEG — joint pictures expert group
TK — Tcl-based Toolkit

RMAIL — restricted mail
SUP — Superscript
FMT — Format
SA — stub archive
GNU — GNU is not Unix
SIGCONT — signal: continue
LEX — Lexical Analyser
LS — List Show
EGREP — extended grep
RZ — Receive Z-modem
CPIO — Copy In and Out
STDDEF.H — standard definitions
ADB — advanced debugger
WISH — windowing shell
CHARGEN — character generator
ESC — Escape
CHSH — change shell
COM — Commercial Operations Management
SBRK — segment break
UL — Unsorted List
TEE — T pipe fitting
MEM — Memory
Z — ?
H1 — Header 1
FD — file descriptors
USENET — User's Network
MKNOD — make node
ETH — ?
— archive
BSEARCH — binary search
DL — Define List
VPRINTF — varargs print formatted
W3C — Word Wide Web Consortium
LPP — licensed program products
TELNET — TErminal over NETwork
UMASK — user's mask
TD — Table Data
FD — Floppy Diskette
NROFF — new roff
XON — Transmission On
SHAR — SHell ARchive
RM — Remove
INODE — Index Node
ELF — Extensible Linking Format
SIGIO — Signal: input/output
KMEM — kernel memory
C89 — 1989 C compiler
DC — Desk Calculator
EMACS — Emacs makes any computer slow
POPD — pop directory

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