Compairing DOS commands to UNIX commands

There are a few command line questions that are asked VERY often. These questions, with answers that should be typed at your shell prompt are printed below:

DOS	UNIX
command / cmd	csh / sh
dir	ls
cls	clear
del	rm
copy	cp
rename	mv
move	mv
type	cat
cd	cd
more < file	more file
md	mkdir
rd	rmdir
win	startx

(Note: Unlike DOS, commands and their arguments MUST be separated by a space. For example, "cd/" doesn't work, but "cd /" does.)

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