THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

C Functions and System Calls

A B C D E F I M P Q R S U V

AcronymMeaning
atof ASCII to float
atoi ASCII to integer
brk break
bsearch binary search
calloc count or cleared allocation (?) (see here)
chdir change directory
ctime convert time
dup duplicate
execl execute list
execle execl with environment
execlp execl with path search
execv execute (with arguments passed in a) vector
execve execv with environment
execvp execv with path search
fcntl file control
fprintf file print formatted
fscanf file scan formatted
ftok file token
ftw file tree walk
ioctl input/output control
isatty is a tty
malloc memory allocation
pclose process close
popen process open
printf print formatted
qsort quick sort
realloc re-allocate
regcmp regular expression compile
regex regular expression execute
sbrk segment break
scanf scan formatted
sprintf string print formatted
srand seed random number generator
sscanf string scan formatted
strcspn string character span
strcat string concatenate
strchr string (find) character
strcmp string compare
strcpy string copy
strlen string length
strpbrk string pointer break
strrchr string (find from the right) character
strspn string span
strstr string (find) string
strtol string to long
strtok string tokenize
umask user's (file creation) mask (see here)
vprintf varargs print formatted

A B C D E F I M P Q R S U V


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