HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 80)

Table 12 OSS Equivalents to Guardian Commands (continued)
OSS Equivalent Description Guardian Command
ps Displays status of running processes. STATUS
kill Stops and deletes a process. STOP
^Z , kill Prevents a process from running until
reactivated. SUSPEND
None Sets the default system. SYSTEM
sh Starts a command interpreter process. TACL
None Manages labeled tapes. MEDIACOM
vi Provides a full-screen editor. TEDIT
None Provides a simple text formatter. TGAL
date Displays the date and time. TIME
None Defines a search list to find existing
variables. USE
logname , who, id, env, umask Displays attributes of users and groups. USERS
cd , chmod Temporarily changes the default volume,
subvolume, and security. VOLUME
vproc (a HP command) Displays product version information. VPROC
id , tty, env Displays information about the current TACL
process. WHO
r , ^p, fc Reexecutes the previous command line. !
fc , history, ^p Displays the previous command line. ?
OSS Commands and Guardian Equivalents
Table 13 lists OSS commands and their Guardian equivalents. Not all OSS commands have a
corresponding Guardian command, and not all Guardian commands have an OSS equivalent.
For this reason, not all Guardian and OSS commands appear in the table.
Table 13 Guardian Equivalents to OSS Commands
Guardian Equivalent Description OSS Command
ALIAS in TACL library file Defines or displays aliases. alias
None Creates and maintains library archives. ar
NETBATCH Executes commands later. at
None Provides a pattern scanning and
processing language. awk
TACL builtins: #set, #charfindv, #chargetv Returns nondirectory portion of
pathname. basename
COMPUTE Provides an arbitrary-precision
arithmetic language. bc
TACL Runs jobs in the background. bg
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