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dict – DICT Protocol Client

dict is a client for the Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) RFC 2229 $dict ls 2 definitions found From V.E.R.A. — Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (January 2014) [vera]: LS LAN Server (IBM) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (20 July 2014) [foldoc]: ls 1. The {Unix} command for listing a {directory}. {Unix manual page}: …

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free – Display amount of free and used memory in the system

A UNIX Command $free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 507008 432908 74100 0 14700 186816 -/+ buffers/cache: 231392 275616 Swap: 1485972 0 1485972 $free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 495 422 72 0 14 182 -/+ buffers/cache: 225 269 Swap: 1451 0 1451 $ UNIX Explanation Display amount of free …

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tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files

A UNIX Command $tee name my name is nice. my name is nice. $cat name my name is nice. $ UNIX Explanation Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output. A special variant of the tee for the shell is called script and permits duplicating all input commands submitted to a shell …

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