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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to execute a command on UNIX? Post 302321178 by BenA on Saturday 30th of May 2009 08:35:14 PM
Old 05-30-2009
How to execute a command on UNIX?

Hi guys,
I'm completely new to UNIX and Linux and all that stuff. I've been using webhosting (shared) for some time years now and recently I've wanted to carry out some tasks that have had some commands which are not familiar to me. One was to install Mailman and the other to copy files from one server to another. I searched for ways to do the latter and got this:
Code:
$ scp source/file.c remoteuser@remoteaddr:remote/dir
$ scp -r remoteuser@remoteaddr:remote/dir ~/tmp

which means nothing to me. I assume that it's a command relating to UNIX and I have no idea how to execute such things. I am used to programming having written plenty of PHP and some client-side languages (not professionally), but this is like nothing I've ever seen.
If this is not UNIX related, I apologise, please correct me. If it is, how might I go about running such a command?
I've searched a bit but nothing much useful seems to come up. If it's helpful, my server says it's "UNIX Type: L8".

Thanks for your time,
Ben
 

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INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

NAME
intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) DESCRIPTION
Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using exit codes as defined in sysexits(3), while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1). SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), intro(2), intro(3), sysexits(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), security(7), intro(8), intro(9) Tutorials in the UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents. HISTORY
The intro manual page appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
October 21, 2001 BSD
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