About a week ago, I discussed with my friend some Linux topics.
At the time, he told me that he didn’t find a proper resource to find information about Linux command acronyms.
I did a little research, but I didn’t find what I wanted about this topic.
So I decided to write an article about it.
It may help others who are looking for this information.
We have added a very small number of acronyms at this time.
But I can say with certainty, over the period of time, we will load a dozen of abbreviations.
So I urge you to stay on this page.
Also, if you would like to contribute to this article I would request you to update the information about acronyms in the comment section.
We are very happy to update this on your behalf.
Linux Package Manager:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
yum | Yellowdog Updater, Modified |
dnf | Dandified yum |
rpm | Red Hat Package Manager |
apt | Advanced Package Tool |
dpkg | Debian Package |
YaST | Yet another Setup Tool |
File Transfer Commands:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
cp | copy |
scp | Secure Copy |
rsync | Remote Sync |
pssh | Parallel Secure SHell |
dsh | Distributed Shell or Dancer’s Shell |
ftp | file transfer protocol |
sftp | secure file transfer protocol |
Linux Filesystem Commands:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
fdisk | fixed disk or format disk |
Parted | PARTition and EDitor |
cfdisk | curses fdisk |
df | Disk free |
du | Disk usage |
fsck | file system consistency check |
UUID | Universally Unique IDentifier of a partition |
mkfs | make filesystem |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. |
udev | userspace /dev |
ASM | Automatic Storage Management |
NFS | Network file system |
lsblk | List block devices |
fs | Filesystem |
SAN | storage area network |
scsi | Small computer standard interface |
Linux Text Processing:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
vi | visual |
vim | vi improved |
awk | Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (names of program authors) |
emacs | editing macros |
fgrep | fixed-string grep |
egrep | extended grep |
grep | global regular expression print |
rm | remove |
umask | user mask |
sed | stream editor |
wc | word count |
xargs | extended arguments |
cat | Concatenates |
Linux File and Directory Management:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
mkdir | make directory |
rmdir | Remove directories, if they are empty |
tar | tape archive |
chown | Change Owner |
chmod | Change Mode |
chgrp | Change Group |
pwd | Print working directory |
cd | Change directory |
Linux User Management:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
id | identity |
umask | user mask |
su | substitute user or Switch User or superuser |
GID | group identification |
UID | user identification |
SUID | set user ID |
SGID | set group ID |
Linux Process Management:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
PID | process identification number |
PPID | Parent Process identification number |
ps | process status |
fg | foreground |
bg | background |
lsof | list of open files |
Linux Network Commands:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
nmap | Network Mapper |
ss | Socket Statistics |
netstat | Network Statistics |
dig | Domain information groper |
IP | Internet protocol |
TCP | Transmission control protocol |
ssh | secure shell |
NIC | Network interface card |
NTP | Network time protocol |
telnet | Terminal over network |
DHCP | Dynamic host configuration protocol |
LAN | Local area network |
MAC | Media access control |
MTU | Maximum transmission unit |
SNMP | Simple network management protocol |
VPN | Virtual private network |
WAN | Wide area network |
WAP | Wireless access point/Wireless application protocol |
Linux Hardware Information:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
lsusb | List USB devices |
lspci | List all PCI devices |
lsscsi | List SCSI devices |
vm | Virtual memory |
RAM | Random access memory |
Type of Linux Shells and Information:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
sh | Bourne shell |
bash | GNU Bourne-Again Shell |
ksh | Korn shell |
csh | C shell |
Fish | Friendly interactive shell |
chsh | Change shell |
Linux General Commands:
Command/Acronyms | Description |
- SAR : System Activity Report
- GRUB : GRand Unified Bootloader
- DNS : Domain Name Service or Domain Name System
- FQDN : Fully qualified domain names
- DE : Desktop Environment
- GUI : Graphical User Interface
- UI : User Interface
- LILO : Linux Loader
- SELINUX : Security Enhanced Linux
- SSL : Secure Sockets Layer
- LAMP : Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- LAMPP : Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and PERL
- http : Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- https : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
- PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor
- init : initialization
awk – Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (names of program authors)
@Kenny,
Thanks for notifying us, We added Acronyms which you suggested.
DE stands for Desktop Environment,
and I remember GUI stands for Graphical User Interface and UI stands for User Interface.