Computing & IT >> Unix Abbreviations
Look through 485 acronyms and abbreviations related to Unix:
| A | Anchor | |
| a | Archive | |
| A/UX | Apple Unix | |
| Aacute | A with accent acute | |
| Acirc | A with accent circonflexe | |
| ACK | Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK) | |
| adb | advanced debugger | |
| Aelig | AE ligature | |
| Agrave | A with accent grave | |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM) | |
| ALT | Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres | |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute, Inc. | |
| AR | Archiver | |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol (ATM) | |
| arpa | Advanced Research Project Agency's | |
| AS | Assembler | |
| ASCII | American National Standard Code for Information Interchange | |
| ATOB | ASCII to Binary | |
| ATOF | ASCII to Float | |
| ATOI | ASCII to Integer | |
| Auml | A with umlaut | |
| AWK | Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan | |
| B | Bold Text | |
| BASH | Bourne Again Shell | |
| bc | better calculator | |
| BEL | Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic) | |
| BG | Background | |
| biff | not an acronym | |
| bin | binaries | |
| BOOTP | Bootstrap Protocol | |
| BR | Break | |
| BRK | Break | |
| BS | Backspace | |
| BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution | |
| bsearch | binary search | |
| BSH | Bourne Shell | |
| BTOA | Binary to ASCII | |
| C | Centum | |
| C | Center | |
| C | Cent | |
| C | Cell | |
| C | Century | |
| C | Centavo | |
| C | Cessna | |
| C | Close | |
| c89 | 1989 C compiler | |
| CAL | Calendar | |
| calloc | cleared allocation | |
| CAN | Cancel | |
| CAT | Concatenate |
| CB | C-Beautifier | |
| CC | C Compiler | |
| Ccedil | C with cedille | |
| CD | Change Directory | |
| CDE | Common Desktop Environment | |
| chargen | character generator | |
| CHDIR | Change Directory | |
| CHGRP | Change Group | |
| CHMOD | Change Mode | |
| CHOWN | Change Owner | |
| chsh | change shell | |
| CI | Check In | |
| CMP | Compare | |
| CO | Check-Out | |
| com | Commercial Operations Management | |
| COM | Commercial | |
| COMM | Common | |
| CP | Copy (Unix command) | |
| CPIO | Copy In and Out | |
| CR | Carriage Return | |
| CRC | Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check) | |
| cron | Chronos | |
| CSH | C Shell Programming | |
| ctime | convert time | |
| ctype.h | character types | |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System | |
| cxx | C File | |
| d | Daemon | |
| DAEMON | Disk And Execution Monitor | |
| DBX | Extended Debugger | |
| DC | Desk Calculator | |
| DC1 | Device Control 1 | |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment | |
| DD | dictionary definition | |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation | |
| DEL | Delete | |
| DEV | Devices | |
| DF | Disk Free | |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | |
| DIFF | Difference | |
| diff3 | differences of three files | |
| DIR | Directory | |
| dirname | directory name | |
| DIV | Division | |
| DL | Define List | |
| DLE | Data Link Escape | |
| DNS | Domain Name Server | |
| DT | Dictionary Term | |
| DU | Disk Usage | |
| DUP | Duplicate |
| DVI | device independant | |
| DWARF | Debug with Arbitrary Record Format | |
| ed | Editorial Decision | |
| ED | Editorial Division | |
| ed | Editorial Department | |
| EDU | Educational Disadvantage Unit | |
| EDU | Educational Organizations | |
| edu | Educational Development Unit | |
| EDU | Educational Institutions | |
| egrep | extended grep | |
| ELF | Extensible Linking Format | |
| Elm | Electronic Mail for UNIX | |
| em | emphasize | |
| emacs | Emacs makes any computer slow | |
| EMACS | Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift | |
| ENQ | Enquiry | |
| ENV | Environment | |
| EOT | End Of Transmission | |
| EQN | Equation | |
| errno | error number | |
| esac | case | |
| Esc | Escape | |
| ETB | End of Transmission Block | |
| ETC | Et Cetera | |
| Eth | ? | |
| ETX | End of Text | |
| EVAL | Evaluate | |
| ex | extended editor | |
| EXEC | Execute | |
| execl | execute list | |
| execle | execl with environment | |
| execlp | execl with path search | |
| execv | execute | |
| execve | execv with environment | |
| execvp | execv with path search | |
| Expr | Expression | |
| FC | Fix Command | |
| fcntl | file control | |
| fd | file descriptors | |
| fd | Floppy Diskette | |
| FF | Form Feed | |
| FG | Foreground | |
| FGREP | fixed-string grep | |
| FMT | Format | |
| fprintf | file print formatted | |
| FS | File Separator | |
| fscanf | file scan formatted | |
| FSCK | File System Check | |
| FSF | Free Software Foundation | |
| FSTAB | File System Table |
| ftio | fast tape input/output | |
| ftok | file token | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | |
| FTW | File Tree Walk | |
| fuser | file user | |
| G | GNU C Compiler | |
| getty | get tty | |
| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format | |
| GLOB | Global | |
| GNU | GNU is not Unix | |
| GOV | Government | |
| GREP | Global Regular Expression Print | |
| GS | Group Separator | |
| GZ | Gnu Zip | |
| H | Header file | |
| h | Header | |
| h1 | Header 1 | |
| HALIGN | horizontal alignment | |
| HD | Hard Disk | |
| HP | Hewlett Packard's | |
| HPUX | Hewlett-Packard Unix | |
| HREF | Hypertext Reference | |
| HT | Horizontal Tabulator | |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | |
| I | Italic | |
| I | Intermediate | |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corporation | |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol | |
| ID | Identity | |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers | |
| IFS | internal field seperators | |
| imake | interface to make | |
| IMAP2 | Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2 | |
| IMG | Image | |
| inode | Index Node | |
| IOCTL | Input/Output Control | |
| IP | Internet Protocol | |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat | |
| isatty | is a tty | |
| ISO | not an acronym | |
| JAVA | [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems | |
| JPEG | joint pictures expert group | |
| JSH | job-control shell | |
| KBD | Keyboard | |
| kmem | kernel memory | |
| KSH | Korn Shell Programming | |
| l | lex | |
| Lang | language | |
| LD | Library Loader | |
| ld | Loader Domain |
| ld | link editor | |
| LEX | Lexical Analyser | |
| LF | Line Feed | |
| lharc | Lempl-Huffman archiver | |
| LI | List Item | |
| Lib | Libra | |
| lint | not an acronym | |
| Linux | from Linus | |
| LN | Link | |
| ln | Link number | |
| LOGNAME | log-in name | |
| lorder | library order | |
| LP | Line Printer | |
| LPC | Line Printer Control | |
| LPD | Line Printer Daemon | |
| lpp | licensed program products | |
| LPQ | Line Printer Queue | |
| lpr | Line Print | |
| LPRM | Line Printer Remove | |
| LS | Listing | |
| LS | Language Specialist | |
| ls | List Show | |
| LS | List-Serv | |
| m4 | macro processor version 4 | |
| malloc | memory allocation | |
| MAN | Manual | |
| MEM | Memory | |
| MHS | Message Handling System (electronic) | |
| MIL | Military | |
| MIME | Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions | |
| Minix | miniature Unix | |
| MKFS | Make File system | |
| mknod | make node | |
| motd | motto of the day | |
| MPEG | motion picture expert group | |
| MULTICS | Multiplexed Information and Computing System | |
| MV | Move | |
| mvdir | move directory | |
| MWM | Motif Window Manager | |
| NAK | Negative Acknowledge | |
| nawk | New AWK | |
| NBSP | Non-Breaking Space | |
| NET | Network | |
| NFS | Network File System | |
| NIC | Network Information Center | |
| NIS | Network Information System | |
| nl | number lines | |
| NL | New Line | |
| NM | Names | |
| NN | No News |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol | |
| NOBR | No break | |
| nohup | no hang-up | |
| NOM | Nomenclature | |
| NROFF | new roff | |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol | |
| NUL | Null | |
| o | object code | |
| oclock | O shaped clock | |
| OD | Octal Dump | |
| OL | Ordered List | |
| ORG | Organization | |
| OSF | Open Software Foundation | |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard) | |
| P | Paragraph | |
| PASSWD | Password | |
| PAX | Portable Archive Exchange | |
| PBM | Portable Bitmap | |
| PCC | Portable C Compiler | |
| pclose | process close | |
| PDP | Programmed Data Processor | |
| Perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language | |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy (encryption) | |
| PICO | PINE Composer | |
| PINE | PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail) | |
| ping | not an acronym | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension) | |
| popd | pop directory | |
| popen | process open | |
| POVRAY | Persistence of Vision Raytracer | |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol | |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol | |
| pr | prepare | |
| Pre | Preformatted | |
| printcap | printer capability | |
| Printf | Print Formatted | |
| PROF | Profile | |
| PRS | Print Revision Summary | |
| PS | Process Status | |
| PS | PostScript | |
| PS1 | prompt string 1 | |
| pty | pseudo tty | |
| pushd | push directory | |
| pwd | print work directory | |
| qdaemon | queue daemon | |
| qsort | quick sort | |
| R | Raw | |
| R | Remote | |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks | |
| ranlib | random access library |
| RARP | Reverse ARP | |
| RC | Run Commands (UNIX) | |
| RCP | Remote Copy Protocol | |
| RCP | remote copy program | |
| RCS | Revision Control System | |
| realloc | re-allocate | |
| REC | Recreation (ground) | |
| regcmp | regular expression compile | |
| regex | regular expression execute | |
| RFC | Request For Comment | |
| RFD | Request For Discussion | |
| RFO | request for opinions | |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol | |
| RLOGIN | Remote Login in Unix | |
| RM | Remove | |
| rmail | restricted mail | |
| rmdel | remove delta | |
| RMDIR | Remove Directory | |
| RMT | Remote Magnetic Tape | |
| RMT | Raw Magnetic Tape | |
| ROFF | run-off | |
| RS | Record Separator | |
| Rsh | Restricted Shell | |
| RSH | Remote Shell | |
| RZ | Receive Z-modem | |
| s | server-parsed HTML | |
| sa | stub archive | |
| Samp | Sample | |
| SAR | System Activity Report | |
| sbin | superuser binaries | |
| sbrk | segment break | |
| scanf | scan formatted | |
| SCCS | Source Code Control System | |
| SCO | Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. | |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface | |
| SDB | symbolic debugger | |
| SED | Stream Editor | |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language | |
| SH | Shell | |
| SHAR | SHell ARchive | |
| SI | Shift In | |
| SIGABRT | signal: abort | |
| SIGALRM | signal: alarm clock | |
| SIGBUS | signal: bus error | |
| SIGCHLD | Signal: child | |
| SIGCONT | signal: continue | |
| SIGEMT | signal: EMT instruction | |
| SIGFPE | signal: floating point exception | |
| SIGHUP | signal: hangup | |
| SIGILL | signal: illegal instruction |
| SIGINT | signal: interruption | |
| SIGIO | Signal: input/output | |
| SIGSEGV | signal: segmentation violation | |
| SIGSYS | Signal: system call | |
| SIGTERM | signal: terminate | |
| SIGTSTP | Signal: terminal stop | |
| SIGTTIN | signal: TTY input | |
| SIGTTOU | signal: TTY output | |
| SIGURG | signal: urgent I/O condition | |
| SIGUSR1 | signal: user-defined signal 1 | |
| SIGWINCH | Signal: window changed | |
| Sinix | Siemens Unix | |
| SLIP | Serial Line Interface Protocol | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM) | |
| SO | Shift-Out | |
| SO | Shared Object | |
| SOH | Start Of Header | |
| Spam | not an acronym | |
| SPC | Space | |
| spool | Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine | |
| sprintf | string print formatted | |
| srand | seed random number generator | |
| SRC | Source | |
| sscanf | string scan formatted | |
| stdarg.h | standard arguments | |
| stddef.h | standard definitions | |
| STDIO.H | Standard Input/Output Header | |
| stdlib.h | standard library | |
| strcat | string concatenate | |
| strchr | string character | |
| strcmp | string compare | |
| strcpy | string copy | |
| strcspn | string character span | |
| strlen | string length | |
| strpbrk | string pointer break | |
| strrchr | string character | |
| strspn | string span | |
| strstr | string string | |
| strtok | string tokenize | |
| strtol | string to long | |
| stty | set tty | |
| STX | Start of Text | |
| SU | Superuser | |
| sub | Subscript | |
| SUB | Substitute | |
| SUP | Superscript | |
| SVR4 | System V Release 4 Unix | |
| SYN | Synchronous | |
| SYNC | Synchronize |
| SYSV | System V | |
| SZ | send Zmodem | |
| szlig | sz ligature | |
| tab | Tabulator | |
| TAR | Tape Archive | |
| TBL | Table | |
| TCL | Tool Command Language | |
| tclsh | Tcl shell | |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol | |
| TCSH | Tenex C Shell | |
| TD | Table Data | |
| tee | T pipe fitting | |
| Telnet | TErminal over NETwork | |
| TERMCAP | TERMinal CAPability | |
| TERMINFO | Terminal Information | |
| tex | Tau Epsilon Chi | |
| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM) | |
| tgz | tar gz | |
| TH | Table Header | |
| TIFF | Tag Image File Format | |
| tk | Tcl-based Toolkit | |
| TMP | Temporary | |
| TNS | Transparent Network Substrate | |
| TR | Translate | |
| TR | Table Row | |
| troff | typesetter roff | |
| TSH | Trusted shell | |
| Tsort | topological sort | |
| TT | Teletype | |
| TTT | Tic Tac Toe | |
| TTY | Teletype Telex Machine | |
| TZ | Time Zone | |
| U | User | |
| U | Underline | |
| ucb | University of California at Berkeley's | |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related) | |
| UL | Unsorted List | |
| ulimit | user's limit | |
| umask | user's mask | |
| uname | Unix name | |
| Uniq | Unique | |
| unistd.h | Unix standard | |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator | |
| US | Unit Separator | |
| USENET | User's Network | |
| USL | UNIX System Laboratories | |
| USR | Unix Shared Resources | |
| utmp | temporary file with user information | |
| UUCP | Unix-to-Unix communication protocol | |
| V | Version |
| VALIGN | vertical alignment | |
| VAR | Variable | |
| varargs.h | variable arguments | |
| VI | Visual | |
| VIM | Vi Improved | |
| vprintf | varargs print formatted | |
| VT | Video Terminal | |
| VT | Vertical tabulator | |
| W3C | Word Wide Web Consortium | |
| wall | write all | |
| WC | Word Count | |
| wish | windowing shell | |
| WM | Window Manager | |
| WWW | World Wide Web | |
| xargs | extended arguments | |
| xbm | X BitMap Format | |
| XDM | X Display Manager | |
| xdpr | X dump print | |
| XENIX | Xenos Unix | |
| XFD | X Font Display | |
| xmkmf | X make makefile | |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language | |
| XMP | example | |
| XOFF | Transmission Off | |
| XON | Transmission On | |
| XPM | X Pixel Map | |
| xrdb | X resource database | |
| XWD | X Window Dump | |
| xwud | X window un-dump | |
| y | yacc | |
| YACC | Yet Another Compiler-Compiler | |
| YP | Yellow Pages | |
| Z | ? | |
| ZIP | Ziv packer | |
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