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

SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
DIV — Division
CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
PS — PostScript
NIS — Network Information System
ARP — Address Resolution Protocol (ATM)
YACC — Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
KBD — Keyboard
MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
RCS — Revision Control System
CC — C Compiler
STRCPY — string copy
RIP — Routing Information Protocol
DCE — Distributed Computing Environment
ICMP — Internet Control Message Protocol
STRSPN — string span
A — Anchor
YP — Yellow Pages
GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
CVS — Concurrent Versions System
TCL — Tool Command Language
NBSP — Non-Breaking Space
EOT — End Of Transmission
HD — Hard Disk
EXECVP — execv with path search
PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
NL — New Line
LF — Line Feed
FSF — Free Software Foundation
STRTOK — string tokenize
NIC — Network Information Center
ORG — Organization
STRRCHR — string character
RMDIR — Remove Directory
WC — Word Count
PERL — Practical Extraction and Report Language
REALLOC — re-allocate
DUP — Duplicate
ETC — Et Cetera
EXECLP — execl with path search
ALT — Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
BOOTP — Bootstrap Protocol
CALLOC — cleared allocation
BRK — Break
RFD — Request For Discussion
EXECV — execute
CD — Change Directory
STDLIB.H — standard library

LPQ — Line Printer Queue
SYNC — Synchronize
CAT — Concatenate
USL — UNIX System Laboratories
STRCMP — string compare
BG — Background
CAN — Cancel
C — Close
TMP — Temporary
HP — Hewlett Packard's
CMP — Compare
RCP — Remote Copy Protocol
EXEC — Execute
NNTP — Network News Transfer Protocol
I — Intermediate
SO — Shift-Out
LANG — language
PASSWD — Password
TAR — Tape Archive
VAR — Variable
MV — Move
RLOGIN — Remote Login in Unix
STDIO.H — Standard Input/Output Header
SIGILL — signal: illegal instruction
FS — File Separator
BEL — Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
CXX — C File
C — Cell
WM — Window Manager
TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
MAN — Manual
BSH — Bourne Shell
BS — Backspace
MWM — Motif Window Manager
STRPBRK — string pointer break
STTY — set tty
STRLEN — string length
TTT — Tic Tac Toe
NTP — Network Time Protocol
IOCTL — Input/Output Control
GOV — Government
XDM — X Display Manager
IMG — Image
ERRNO — error number
C — Century
SIGUSR1 — signal: user-defined signal 1
SIGALRM — signal: alarm clock
SVR4 — System V Release 4 Unix
SCANF — scan formatted
LS — Listing

U — Underline
CDE — Common Desktop Environment
SED — Stream Editor
CTYPE.H — character types
PPTP — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
C — Cent
GREP — Global Regular Expression Print
STX — Start of Text
SIGEMT — signal: EMT instruction
TH — Table Header
AIX — Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
MULTICS — Multiplexed Information and Computing System
D — Daemon
TGZ — tar gz
FF — Form Feed
C — Cessna
CI — Check In
I — Italic
COM — Commercial
AELIG — AE ligature
PDP — Programmed Data Processor
TFTP — Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
C — Centavo
JAVA — [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
C — Centum
PROF — Profile
P — Paragraph
PS — Process Status
ETX — End of Text
US — Unit Separator
NAK — Negative Acknowledge
SI — Shift In
DIR — Directory
SIGHUP — signal: hangup
OL — Ordered List
TIFF — Tag Image File Format
LPC — Line Printer Control
CSH — C Shell Programming
GS — Group Separator
ZIP — Ziv packer
HREF — Hypertext Reference
V — Version
LIB — Libra
CTIME — convert time
SO — Shared Object
LPRM — Line Printer Remove
B — Bold Text
ISATTY — is a tty
OSF — Open Software Foundation
LPD — Line Printer Daemon

DAEMON — Disk And Execution Monitor
SU — Superuser
RS — Record Separator
SIGTTIN — signal: TTY input
IMAP2 — Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
EQN — Equation
VI — Visual
UNAME — Unix name
LS — List-Serv
DNS — Domain Name Server
ACIRC — A with accent circonflexe
AWK — Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
CCEDIL — C with cedille
KSH — Korn Shell Programming
TCSH — Tenex C Shell
COMM — Common
FSCK — File System Check
AGRAVE — A with accent grave
SCCS — Source Code Control System
SZLIG — sz ligature
SIGTSTP — Signal: terminal stop
FTOK — file token
VT — Video Terminal
ATOF — ASCII to Float
POPEN — process open
SPAM — not an acronym
ATOB — ASCII to Binary
EXECL — execute list
LORDER — library order
ENV — Environment
PAX — Portable Archive Exchange
SIGBUS — signal: bus error
BASH — Bourne Again Shell
R — Remote
SSCANF — string scan formatted
PRINTF — Print Formatted
NUL — Null
LI — List Item
RC — Run Commands (UNIX)
UCB — University of California at Berkeley's
TR — Table Row
PTY — pseudo tty
SINIX — Siemens Unix
DWARF — Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
UUCP — Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
LPR — Line Print
LS — Language Specialist
ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
PING — not an acronym
HT — Horizontal Tabulator

DEL — Delete
SPRINTF — string print formatted
ENQ — Enquiry
SOH — Start Of Header
NOHUP — no hang-up
SIGTERM — signal: terminate
UTMP — temporary file with user information
LD — Library Loader
RSH — Remote Shell
SAMP — Sample
A — Archive
ELM — Electronic Mail for UNIX
SCO — Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
AS — Assembler
ETB — End of Transmission Block
SIGURG — signal: urgent I/O condition
ULIMIT — user's limit
CAL — Calendar
DLE — Data Link Escape
PUSHD — push directory
SAR — System Activity Report
MPEG — motion picture expert group
DC1 — Device Control 1
SUB — Substitute
CHOWN — Change Owner
G — GNU C Compiler
LP — Line Printer
DEV — Devices
A/UX — Apple Unix
TNS — Transparent Network Substrate
CHDIR — Change Directory
FUSER — file user
FG — Foreground
EDU — Educational Development Unit
TR — Translate
BR — Break
CB — C-Beautifier
BIN — binaries
VIM — Vi Improved
TZ — Time Zone
ATOI — ASCII to Integer
AR — Archiver
TT — Teletype
STRTOL — string to long
EDU — Educational Institutions
TERMCAP — TERMinal CAPability
CHARGEN — character generator
TSH — Trusted shell
SIGTTOU — signal: TTY output
DIFF — Difference

DU — Disk Usage
BIFF — not an acronym
SRAND — seed random number generator
DVI — device independant
TEX — Tau Epsilon Chi
EDU — Educational Disadvantage Unit
XFD — X Font Display
UNIQ — Unique
RANLIB — random access library
SIGFPE — signal: floating point exception
RCP — remote copy program
SRC — Source
FSTAB — File System Table
TBL — Table
STDARG.H — standard arguments
SIGSEGV — signal: segmentation violation
SIGCHLD — Signal: child
ROFF — run-off
SPC — Space
ISO — not an acronym
USR — Unix Shared Resources
DF — Disk Free
SUB — Subscript
TERMINFO — Terminal Information
FTW — File Tree Walk
LINT — not an acronym
U — User
EXECLE — execl with environment
PRE — Preformatted
ED — Editorial Division
HPUX — Hewlett-Packard Unix
GZ — Gnu Zip
CRON — Chronos
FSCANF — file scan formatted
ESAC — case
JSH — job-control shell
FMT — Format
EVAL — Evaluate
REGCMP — regular expression compile
SDB — symbolic debugger
SH — Shell
RSH — Restricted Shell
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
QSORT — quick sort
SBIN — superuser binaries
POVRAY — Persistence of Vision Raytracer
REGEX — regular expression execute
DIRNAME — directory name
GLOB — Global
PCC — Portable C Compiler

NN — No News
ADB — advanced debugger
OCLOCK — O shaped clock
REC — Recreation (ground)
ETH — ?
DIFF3 — differences of three files
RARP — Reverse ARP
PS1 — prompt string 1
W3C — Word Wide Web Consortium
TELNET — TErminal over NETwork
L — lex
USENET — User's Network
EDU — Educational Organizations
NOM — Nomenclature
MALLOC — memory allocation
GNU — GNU is not Unix
ELF — Extensible Linking Format
H — Header
SBRK — segment break
IMAKE — interface to make
CP — Copy (Unix command)
CPIO — Copy In and Out
MKFS — Make File system
STDDEF.H — standard definitions
PR — prepare
MINIX — miniature Unix
PBM — Portable Bitmap
H — Header file
SPOOL — Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
PRINTCAP — printer capability
SIGIO — Signal: input/output
EGREP — extended grep
ED — Editorial Department
EXPR — Expression
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
NM — Names
CHMOD — Change Mode
LD — Loader Domain
RMT — Remote Magnetic Tape
TSORT — topological sort
EMACS — Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
LN — Link
FTIO — fast tape input/output
Y — yacc
M4 — macro processor version 4
EMACS — Emacs makes any computer slow
TK — Tcl-based Toolkit
MKNOD — make node
LEX — Lexical Analyser
PICO — PINE Composer

TCLSH — Tcl shell
XRDB — X resource database
MVDIR — move directory
RZ — Receive Z-modem
XWUD — X window un-dump
Z — ?
FGREP — fixed-string grep
RMAIL — restricted mail
AUML — A with umlaut
VT — Vertical tabulator
MOTD — motto of the day
LN — Link number
S — server-parsed HTML
VPRINTF — varargs print formatted
RMT — Raw Magnetic Tape
DC — Desk Calculator
SZ — send Zmodem
TEE — T pipe fitting
O — object code
ESC — Escape
H1 — Header 1
CHSH — change shell
KMEM — kernel memory
MIME — Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
XON — Transmission On
BC — better calculator
COM — Commercial Operations Management
MEM — Memory
SIGWINCH — Signal: window changed
OD — Octal Dump
JPEG — joint pictures expert group
PRS — Print Revision Summary
SUP — Superscript
BSEARCH — binary search
WISH — windowing shell
SA — stub archive
TROFF — typesetter roff
XWD — X Window Dump
— archive
BTOA — Binary to ASCII
NOBR — No break
LPP — licensed program products
ED — Editorial Decision
POPD — pop directory
SIGCONT — signal: continue
FD — file descriptors
XBM — X BitMap Format
LS — List Show
UL — Unsorted List
C89 — 1989 C compiler

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