Usage Differences for Linux and AIX Utilities

This document Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2001.

Overview

This document is intended to aid application developers when porting command scripts from Linux to AIX, or when moving between Linux and AIX. 

This document should be viewed only as a source of information.  It does not represent a commitment by IBM either to modify AIX, nor to implement/not implement those functions that were found to be incompatible.

A

ac acctcms acctcom acctcon1 acctcon2 acctdisk acctdusg acctmerg accton  acctprc1  acctprc2  acctwtmp admin alias apply apropos ar arithmetic asa at atq atrm awk 

B

back backbyinode backbyname backup banner basename batch bc bdiff bfsbg biff  bj bs bsh

C

cal calendar calprog cancel capture cat catman cb cd cdc  cflow cflow1  chargefee chgrp chitab chlang chmod chown chroot chtz ckpacct  cksum cmp colrm comb comm  command  compress confer cp cpio craps cron cronadm crontab csh csplit ctags cu cut cxref

D

dag date dc dd del delta  devnm  di  diff diff3  diff3prog dircmp dirname  disk do dosdel  dosdir dosformat  dosread doswrite  dspcat dspmsg  du 

E

e echo ed edit egrep env exec-built-in expand expr

F

factor  false  fastboot  fasthalt fcfd format  fg fgrep flcopy file  find fish flip fold  format fortune  fpr fsplit  ftp fuser fwtmp

G

gencat get getconf getopt getopts gprofgrep

H

halt hangman hash head help

I

iconv id indent init install installbsd iostat ipcrm  ipcs

J

jobs join joinconf

K

keymaps kill killall ksh

L

last lastcomm lastlogin leave lex li line link lint  lint1 lint2  ln locale  localedef locale learn lock logname  logger look lp lpr lpq lpstat ls lsitab

M

m4 machstat make make_32  mail man  mesg mkcatdefs  mkdir mkfifo  mkitab makekey mklost+found mknod  mkproto mkstr mkwhatis moo  more mount move msgs mt mv  mvdir

N

nawk netstat newform newgrp news nice  nl nmf  nohu nulladm number

O

od 

P

pack page  pagesize paste  passwd patch  pathchk pax  pcat pcs  pdelay pdisable  penable pg phold  pr prctmp  prdaily printenv  printf prof  proto prs  prtacct ps pshare  psharepax pstart pwd

Q

quiz 

R

rc.powerfail rdist rdump read  reboot red regcmp  remove renice restbyinode restbyname  restore rev rm rmdel rmdir rmitab rmt rrestore rsh runacct  runcat

S

sa sact sa2 sadc sar sa1 sccs sccsdiff sccshelp sdiff  sed sh shutacct  shutdown skulker script sleep sno startup sort spell split  strings struct stty sum su sync syscall sysline systat

T

t300 t300S  t300s t4014  t450 tab  tail talk  tapechk tar tcopy tctl tee telinit  telnet test  time timex touch tplot tprint tr trbsd  ttt tty  turnacct turnoff turnon type

U

ulimit umask unalias  uname uncompress unexpand unget  unifdef unget  uniq units unlink  unpack untab update  uprintfd users uuptime

V

val vc vedit vi view vmstat

W

w wall wait wc  what whatis  whereis which who whoami window write  wtmpfix wump

X

xargs xstr

Y

yacc yes

Z

zcat