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DOS command equivalents

Appendix C

DOS command equivalents

This appendix contains a table showing some common MS-DOS commands and their SCO OpenServer system equivalents.

For more information about any of the SCO OpenServer system commands, consult the Operating System User's Reference.

The commands listed below are for working with SCO OpenServer system files. If you have DOS installed on the same machine as your SCO OpenServer system, you can access your DOS files from within the SCO OpenServer system. For more information about accessing DOS files, see ``Working with DOS'' and doscmd(C) in the Operating System User's Reference.

DOS command What it does UNIX system equivalent Notes
cd change directories cd(C)  
cls clear the screen clear(C)  
copy copy files cp(C),
copy(C),
tar(C)
Use cp to copy files, copy to copy directories, and tar to copy files or directories onto floppy disks or tapes.
date display the system date and time date(C),
cal(C)
On the UNIX system, date displays the date and the time. cal displays the date, the time, and a 3-month calendar.
del delete a file rm(C) Be careful when using rm with wildcard characters, like rm *.
dir list the contents of a directory ls(C) There are a variety of options to ls including ls -l to see a long listing, ls -c to see a listing in columns, and ls -f to see a listing that indicates file types.
diskcomp make a track-by-track comparison of two floppy disks diskcmp(C)  
diskcopy copy a source disk to a target disk diskcp(C)  
edlin line editor ed(C),
ex(C),
vi(C)
vi is a full-screen text editor with powerful search and replace functions. ed and ex are predecessors of vi.
fc compare two files diff(C),
diff3(C),
cmp(C)
diff compares two text files. diff3 compares three text files. Use cmp to compare binary files.
find find text within a file grep(C) grep (global regular expression parser) finds text within a file. The UNIX system's find(C) command finds files.
format format a disk format(C) See /etc/default/format for the default drive to format. The format command formats a disk for use with UNIX system files. Use dosformat (see doscmd(C)) to format a DOS disk.
mkdir make a directory mkdir(C)  
more display output one screen at a time more(C)  
print print files in the background lp(C) Use lp filename & to print in the background. You can run any UNIX system command in the background by adding & (ampersand) to the end of the command line.
ren rename a file mv(C)  
rmdir remove an empty directory rmdir(C) Use rm -r to remove a directory that is not empty.
sort sort data sort(C)  
type display a text file cat(C),
more(C)
 
xcopy copy directories copy(C),
tar(C)
Use tar if you want to copy directories onto disk or tape.


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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003