| cal [-3] | |
| Display a calendar for the current month or for 3 months. | |
| date [+formatstring] | |
| Print the system date and time. By formatstring the output can be controlled. | Documentation |
| evolution [-c component] [--force-shutdown] | PZ |
| Email and groupware program. The components calendar, contacts, tasks and mail can be started individually. To stop all evolution related processes use --force-shutdown. | Documentation |
| hostname | |
| Show the system's host name | Documentation |
| korganizer | |
| A personal organizer (calendar, to-do lists etc.) for KDE | |
| last[-n] [name] | |
| Indicate last logins by user name (limit output to n lines). | |
| phone string | NH |
| Look for items in phone book containing string \Yi{phone [-hpz] [-f file] string[s]}{NZ} Look for items in phone book starting with string[s]. The search can be restricted to Zeuthen (-z), Hamburg (-h) or extended to a private phonebook (-p) in /.phonebook. tele is a synonym. | |
| today [-qux] | NZ |
| Display only headlines (-q), only unseen (-u) or expired (-x) news. New items can be entered by sysadmins. | |
| uname [-snrvmpioa] | |
| Print system information (sysname, nodename, kernel release, kernel version, machine, processor, hardware platform(i), operating system or all info) | Documentation |
| uptime | |
| Tell how long the system has been running and the average load over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. | Documentation |
| w [name] | |
| Show who is logged on and what they are doing (preferred over who). | |
| who [-b] | |
| Show who is logged on. Useful to display last boot (-b) time instead. | Documentation |
| whoami | |
| Print effective userid (can be different from login userid, see su). | Documentation |
| ypcat [-k] [mapname] | H |
| List all values stored in (NIS) mapname. Option -k displays also map keys. | |
| yplist [-st] [netgroup] | N |
| List contents of netgroup (in NIS map netgroup). yplist -t lists all top netgroups. With option -s list subgroups of netgroup or the whole netgroup structure. | |
| ypmatch [-k] key mapname | H |
| Print key values in NIS map mapname. Typical usage: ypmatch username passwd |