Miscellaneous Utilities

at Executes a shell script at a time you specify—page 1093
cal Displays a calendar—page 1096
crontab Maintains crontab files—page 1129
echo Displays a message—page 1157
expr Evaluates an expression—page 1159
fsck Checks and repairs a filesystem—page 1176
Mtools Uses DOS-style commands on files and directories—page 1256
tee Copies standard input to standard output and one or more files—page 1348
test Evaluates an expression—page 1352
tr Replaces specified characters—page 1362
tty Displays the terminal pathname—page 1365
xargs Converts standard output of one command into arguments for another—page 1377

The following sample shows the format that is used throughout Part III. These descriptions of the utilities are similar ...

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