Suse Command List

nthnmsnr · 08-19-2005, 10:24 AM

Is there a list of shell commands somewhere out there? I got used to RedHat and now I'm finding that there are some differences... but don't know how to figure these out.... does anyone have a list of all the commmands and what they do...? thanks,
Nathan

jailbait · 08-19-2005, 11:03 AM

"does anyone have a list of all the commmands and what they do."

You can list out the commands by listing the directories where the commands reside. For example:
ls -l /bin
ls -l /sbin

Then you can find out what a command soes from the man pages, for example:
man stty

To find all of the possible command libraries list your PATH:
echo $PATH
but /bin and /sbin are probably the directories to start with.

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Steve Stites

PenguinPwrdBox · 08-19-2005, 11:06 AM

Another thing - man pages - and either whatis or apropos.

Whatis will tell you briefly what a command does.
If you know what you want to do - but don't know the command - use apropos.
If neither of these work, try running catman -w to build the DB - and run it again.