Converting DOS commands to UNIX commands

There are a few command line questions that are asked VERY often. These questions, with answers that should be typed at your shell prompt are printed below:

DOS                 UNIX
dir ............... ls
cls ............... clear
del ............... rm
copy .............. cp
move / rename ..... mv
type .............. cat
cd ................ cd
more < file ....... more file
md ................ mkdir
rd ................ rmdir
win ............... startx :)

(Note:  Unlike DOS, commands and their arguments MUST be separated by a
space.  For example, "cd/" doesn't work, but "cd /" does.)

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