HP-UX Equivalents for BSD Commands

HP-UX is largely based on System V, so many commands won't behave as you'd expect. Here's a guide to the HP-UX equivalents for some common commands:

    
BSD                    HP-UX    
rsh                    remsh; /usr/kerberos/bin/rsh    
Mail;/usr/ucb/mail     mailx
lpq                    lpstat    
lprm                   cancel  
lpr -Pprinter          lp -dprinter 
ls -lg                 ls -l 
ls -l                  ls -lg 
/usr/ucb/last          /etc/last 
ps -aux                ps -ef 
ps -aux | grep user     ps -fu user 
df                     try gdf 
du                     uses 512-byte blocks, not 1024; try gdu 
PRINTER (env var)      LPDEST 
USER                   LOGNAME 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH        SHLIB_PATH 

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