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Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:

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

RAID — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
NET — Network
TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
STRSPN — string span
DIV — Division
AELIG — AE ligature
ARP — Address Resolution Protocol (ATM)
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language
KBD — Keyboard
YACC — Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
EOT — End Of Transmission
ICMP — Internet Control Message Protocol
RCS — Revision Control System
NIS — Network Information System
CVS — Concurrent Versions System
DCE — Distributed Computing Environment
RIP — Routing Information Protocol
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
RFD — Request For Discussion
NL — New Line
DUP — Duplicate
STRCPY — string copy
CC — C Compiler
PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
YP — Yellow Pages
TCL — Tool Command Language
EXECVP — execv with path search
ORG — Organization
PERL — Practical Extraction and Report Language
A — Anchor
LF — Line Feed
NBSP — Non-Breaking Space
ETC — Et Cetera
SIGURG — signal: urgent I/O condition
EXECV — execute
STRTOK — string tokenize
EXECLP — execl with path search
RMDIR — Remove Directory
CALLOC — cleared allocation
HD — Hard Disk
NIC — Network Information Center
TTT — Tic Tac Toe
WC — Word Count
REALLOC — re-allocate
BRK — Break
FSF — Free Software Foundation

ALT — Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
STRRCHR — string character
LANG — language
HP — Hewlett Packard's
BOOTP — Bootstrap Protocol
STRCMP — string compare
PASSWD — Password
BG — Background
STDLIB.H — standard library
IMG — Image
STTY — set tty
SYNC — Synchronize
CD — Change Directory
CAN — Cancel
USL — UNIX System Laboratories
CAT — Concatenate
TMP — Temporary
NNTP — Network News Transfer Protocol
LPQ — Line Printer Queue
CXX — C File
RCP — Remote Copy Protocol
PPTP — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
C — Close
MV — Move
CMP — Compare
EXEC — Execute
IOCTL — Input/Output Control
STX — Start of Text
STRLEN — string length
VAR — Variable
SIGILL — signal: illegal instruction
MAN — Manual
SIGHUP — signal: hangup
TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
SIGALRM — signal: alarm clock
U — Underline
SO — Shift-Out
TAR — Tape Archive
SVR4 — System V Release 4 Unix
GREP — Global Regular Expression Print
NTP — Network Time Protocol
I — Intermediate
RLOGIN — Remote Login in Unix
STRPBRK — string pointer break
C — Cell
BEL — Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
BSH — Bourne Shell
C — Century
CDE — Common Desktop Environment
WM — Window Manager

ETX — End of Text
ERRNO — error number
FS — File Separator
SCANF — scan formatted
UNAME — Unix name
MWM — Motif Window Manager
GOV — Government
BS — Backspace
SIGUSR1 — signal: user-defined signal 1
XDM — X Display Manager
AIX — Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
TGZ — tar gz
CTYPE.H — character types
DIR — Directory
LS — Listing
SED — Stream Editor
TFTP — Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
HREF — Hypertext Reference
JAVA — [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
COM — Commercial
TH — Table Header
C — Cent
CI — Check In
CSH — C Shell Programming
MULTICS — Multiplexed Information and Computing System
D — Daemon
NAK — Negative Acknowledge
FF — Form Feed
DNS — Domain Name Server
TIFF — Tag Image File Format
PDP — Programmed Data Processor
C — Cessna
CTIME — convert time
LIB — Libra
US — Unit Separator
I — Italic
LPD — Line Printer Daemon
C — Centavo
SCCS — Source Code Control System
ATOB — ASCII to Binary
P — Paragraph
SI — Shift In
C — Centum
OL — Ordered List
OSF — Open Software Foundation
ISATTY — is a tty
PROF — Profile
PS — Process Status
ZIP — Ziv packer
EQN — Equation

KSH — Korn Shell Programming
LPC — Line Printer Control
DC1 — Device Control 1
DAEMON — Disk And Execution Monitor
SIGTTIN — signal: TTY input
GS — Group Separator
ETB — End of Transmission Block
ACIRC — A with accent circonflexe
LS — List-Serv
IMAP2 — Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
FSCK — File System Check
CCEDIL — C with cedille
NUL — Null
V — Version
COMM — Common
FTOK — file token
SO — Shared Object
LPRM — Line Printer Remove
VI — Visual
EXECL — execute list
B — Bold Text
SU — Superuser
RS — Record Separator
ULIMIT — user's limit
UTMP — temporary file with user information
BASH — Bourne Again Shell
PAX — Portable Archive Exchange
ENQ — Enquiry
SSCANF — string scan formatted
SIGBUS — signal: bus error
CHARGEN — character generator
SINIX — Siemens Unix
SIGTSTP — Signal: terminal stop
AWK — Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
PUSHD — push directory
LORDER — library order
PRINTF — Print Formatted
SPAM — not an acronym
SZLIG — sz ligature
POPEN — process open
TCSH — Tenex C Shell
AGRAVE — A with accent grave
VT — Video Terminal
PTY — pseudo tty
SIGTTOU — signal: TTY output
DLE — Data Link Escape
DEL — Delete
ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
ATOF — ASCII to Float
LI — List Item

RC — Run Commands (UNIX)
LPR — Line Print
SAMP — Sample
ENV — Environment
R — Remote
DWARF — Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
SUB — Substitute
HT — Horizontal Tabulator
UCB — University of California at Berkeley's
SPC — Space
SCO — Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
ELM — Electronic Mail for UNIX
SOH — Start Of Header
TR — Table Row
ROFF — run-off
UUCP — Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
EDU — Educational Development Unit
BR — Break
FUSER — file user
RSH — Remote Shell
SIGTERM — signal: terminate
EDU — Educational Disadvantage Unit
CB — C-Beautifier
LINT — not an acronym
DIFF — Difference
PING — not an acronym
LS — Language Specialist
EVAL — Evaluate
SIGCHLD — Signal: child
TZ — Time Zone
CHOWN — Change Owner
NOHUP — no hang-up
TSH — Trusted shell
SPRINTF — string print formatted
VIM — Vi Improved
SRAND — seed random number generator
EDU — Educational Institutions
BIFF — not an acronym
FG — Foreground
CAL — Calendar
A — Archive
DU — Disk Usage
LD — Library Loader
TBL — Table
ATOI — ASCII to Integer
TR — Translate
SAR — System Activity Report
DEV — Devices
A/UX — Apple Unix
TNS — Transparent Network Substrate

EXECLE — execl with environment
CHDIR — Change Directory
LP — Line Printer
AS — Assembler
XON — Transmission On
FTW — File Tree Walk
SRC — Source
DVI — device independant
TT — Teletype
XFD — X Font Display
REC — Recreation (ground)
FMT — Format
NOM — Nomenclature
G — GNU C Compiler
BIN — binaries
MPEG — motion picture expert group
TERMCAP — TERMinal CAPability
STRTOL — string to long
ESAC — case
UNIQ — Unique
EDU — Educational Organizations
RCP — remote copy program
SDB — symbolic debugger
AR — Archiver
USR — Unix Shared Resources
GZ — Gnu Zip
DF — Disk Free
TEX — Tau Epsilon Chi
JSH — job-control shell
RANLIB — random access library
SIGFPE — signal: floating point exception
U — User
DIRNAME — directory name
ISO — not an acronym
STDARG.H — standard arguments
RSH — Restricted Shell
CRON — Chronos
SUB — Subscript
FSTAB — File System Table
SIGSEGV — signal: segmentation violation
SH — Shell
GLOB — Global
TERMINFO — Terminal Information
HPUX — Hewlett-Packard Unix
USENET — User's Network
M4 — macro processor version 4
ADB — advanced debugger
ED — Editorial Division
CHMOD — Change Mode
PCC — Portable C Compiler

RMT — Remote Magnetic Tape
POVRAY — Persistence of Vision Raytracer
MVDIR — move directory
PRE — Preformatted
STDDEF.H — standard definitions
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
SBIN — superuser binaries
SBRK — segment break
FSCANF — file scan formatted
TELNET — TErminal over NETwork
NN — No News
NM — Names
L — lex
ETH — ?
LEX — Lexical Analyser
DIFF3 — differences of three files
W3C — Word Wide Web Consortium
MALLOC — memory allocation
OCLOCK — O shaped clock
QSORT — quick sort
IMAKE — interface to make
LN — Link
REGCMP — regular expression compile
RARP — Reverse ARP
CPIO — Copy In and Out
EGREP — extended grep
EXPR — Expression
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
MINIX — miniature Unix
LD — Loader Domain
CP — Copy (Unix command)
XRDB — X resource database
SIGIO — Signal: input/output
ED — Editorial Department
REGEX — regular expression execute
TEE — T pipe fitting
TK — Tcl-based Toolkit
ELF — Extensible Linking Format
CHSH — change shell
PBM — Portable Bitmap
SPOOL — Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
PS1 — prompt string 1
RMT — Raw Magnetic Tape
MKFS — Make File system
GNU — GNU is not Unix
H — Header
RZ — Receive Z-modem
SIGWINCH — Signal: window changed
EMACS — Emacs makes any computer slow
FGREP — fixed-string grep

PR — prepare
MKNOD — make node
H1 — Header 1
H — Header file
XWD — X Window Dump
TSORT — topological sort
COM — Commercial Operations Management
S — server-parsed HTML
FTIO — fast tape input/output
WISH — windowing shell
TROFF — typesetter roff
ESC — Escape
EMACS — Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
PICO — PINE Composer
TCLSH — Tcl shell
PRINTCAP — printer capability
XWUD — X window un-dump
MEM — Memory
RMAIL — restricted mail
AUML — A with umlaut
MOTD — motto of the day
LN — Link number
VPRINTF — varargs print formatted
DC — Desk Calculator
SZ — send Zmodem
Y — yacc
ED — Editorial Decision
Z — ?
VT — Vertical tabulator
SUP — Superscript
OD — Octal Dump
MIME — Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
LPP — licensed program products
NAWK — New AWK
O — object code
ID — Identity
SIGCONT — signal: continue
PRS — Print Revision Summary
BC — better calculator
BSEARCH — binary search
SIGINT — signal: interruption
POPD — pop directory
KMEM — kernel memory
BTOA — Binary to ASCII
CHGRP — Change Group
JPEG — joint pictures expert group
CO — Check-Out
SHAR — SHell ARchive
SA — stub archive
SYSV — System V

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