On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Cloutman, David wrote: > I would add to absolute must-know commands: It might be more useful to look up 'unix command reference' (or 'solaris command reference' as appropriate) on your favorite internet search engine. > which - This will tell you where the binary file that a command is > executing lives. If you are administering a machine, this information > can be vital. `which` can lie. It's not a shell builtin, and if it's written as a csh script (as on MacOSX), and you have a .cshrc that adjusts your path, but you don't typically use csh, it may not show you the correct path. > tar -zxvf - The tar command with all the flags needed to decompress a > tar.gz file. If you have gnu tar. For older version of Solaris (definately pre-9, I can't remember if it was an issue in 9, and I've never used 10), you have to use: gunzip -c file | tar xvf - And for the reverse: tar -cvf - input_files | gzip -c > file -Joe H.