| Acronym |
Meaning |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
| ARGV |
ARGument Vector |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
| Awk |
named after its inventors names Aho, Weinberger and
Kernighan |
| bash |
Bourne Again SHell |
| BSD |
Berkeley System Distribution |
| CDE |
Common Desktop Environment |
| CPM |
Control Program for Microcomputers |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| csplit |
context split |
| DNS |
Domain Name Service |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| FDISK |
Fixed disk utility |
| FIFO |
First In First Out |
| FNR |
File Number of Record |
| FS |
field separator |
| FVWM |
F Virtual Window Manager |
| GNOME |
GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| Grep |
refers to the ex command g/RE/p |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. |
| JAPH |
Just Another Perl Hacker |
| KDE |
K Desktop Environment |
| LILO |
LInux LOader |
| MAC |
Media Access Control |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| NF |
number of fields |
| NIS |
Network Information Service |
| NR |
number of record |
| PASC |
Portable Application Standards Committee |
| PIN |
Personal Identification Number |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RS |
record separator |
| RSI |
Repetitive Strain Injury |
| Sed |
Stream EDitor |
| SPARC |
Scalable Processor ARChitecture |
| tty |
teletype |
| UMSDOS |
UNIX under MS-DOS |
| UTC |
Universal Coordinated Time, which is GMT |
| VMS |
Virtual Memory System |
| WINE |
Wine Is Not an Emulator |
| YaST |
Yet another Setup Tool |
| yp |
yellow pages |