a
alias Create’s alias’s
apt-get Package Manager for distro’s such as Ubuntu or debian based
aspell Spell Checking tool
arp Address Resolution Protocol, used to translate ip’s to hardware interface addresses
awk Find and Replace text, database sort/validate/index
b
bash Bourne-Again SHell
bc Arbitrary precision calculator language
bg Launch in background
break Quit a loop
builtin Shell builtin
bzip2 Compression / De-compression tool
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