Question

describe some similarities of working with printer and file related command lines in Windows, MacOS, and Linux based systems.

Answer 1

Similarities in terms of Printer and file related command lines:

Windows

A terminal or command prompt is a black box ideally used to execute commands. It is also called the Windows Command Processor. It is used to execute commands and different batch files. It can also be used for administrative functions and troubleshoot and solve all windows issues.

MacOS

MAC provides a console as a terminal application. It has a console, command line, prompt and terminal. Command line is used to type your commands. Prompt will provide you with some information and also enable you to run commands. A terminal is an actual interface which will provide the modern graphical user interface as well.

You can find terminal at Applications -> Utilities.

Linux

Linux also provides a terminal. You can find terminal at: Applications -> System or Applications -> Utilities. In addition to this, there is also a shell prompt. The most common shell used in bash. It defines how the terminal will behave and look when it is run.

Command's Purpose	MS-DOS	Linux	Basic Linux Example
Copies files	copy	cp	cp thisfile.txt /home/thisdirectory
Moves files	move	mv	mv thisfile.txt /home/thisdirectory
Lists files	dir	ls	ls
Clears screen	cls	clear	clear
Closes shell prompt	exit	exit	exit
Displays or sets date	date	date	date
Deletes files	del	rm	rm thisfile.txt
"Echoes" output to the screen	echo	echo	echo this message
Edits text files	edit	gedit([a])	gedit thisfile.txt
Compares the contents of files	fc	diff	diff file1 file2
Finds a string of text in a file	find	grep	grep word or phrase thisfile.txt
Formats a diskette	format a: (if diskette is in A:)	mke2fs	/sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0 (/dev/fd0 is the Linux equivalent of A:)
Displays command help	command /?	man or info	man command
Creates a directory	mkdir	mkdir	mkdir directory
Views contents of a file	more	less([b])	less thisfile.txt
Renames a file	ren	mv([c])	mv thisfile.txt thatfile.txt
Displays your location in the file system	chdir	pwd	pwd
Changes directories with a specified path (absolute path)	cd pathname	cd pathname	cd /directory/directory
Changes directories with a relative path	cd..	cd ..	cd ..
Displays the time	time	date	date
Shows amount of RAM in use	mem	free	free

UNIX              WINDOWS

cat                    type, copy

cd                     cd (plus if changing drives, type the drive letter first)

e.g. C:>D:

D:>cd D:\test

cp                     copy, xcopy

cron                 at, Task Scheduler

ftp                    ftp

grep                  find, findstr

ls                      dir

man                  help

mkdir               mkdir

more                more

mv                   rename - to rename,   move - actually move a file

netstat               netstat

nslookup          nslookup

ping                  ping

ps                     Task Manager, tasklist

pwd                  cd

rm                    del

rmdir                rmdir

telnet                telnet

traceroute          tracert

who                  net session

Hope this may help.