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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How do you use UNIX commands in the Windows Command Line? Post 302427016 by vlay2 on Thursday 3rd of June 2010 01:18:41 PM
Old 06-03-2010
Honestly, I'm still pretty lost about everything. I installed Cygwin, and I opened it up and I try and type Unix commands like '% ls' and it keeps saying "bash: fg: %: no such job"

I'm thinking there's an easy fix to this, but I am really new to UNIX commands and writing on the command line in general. I just started learning yesterday so please bear with me.
 

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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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