What 3 commands all noobs should know/learn?
 

In your opinion, what 3 commands should noobs learn for Linux?

I'm a noob, and I've just started using Suse 9.1. Last night I just learned to copy a file is cp, not copy as in windoze.

Dir shows a directory w/ permissions (I think). Not sure what the different colors mean though.

I don't have a third one yet, but I'm working on it.

man <command> is probably number one (as is man man) - with that you can see exactly what the command does and what options you can apply.

1) I agree with 'man'
2) 'su'; not only for use for root, but also for a quick change to another user for some reason
3) 'slocate'; it really helps when you know where a file is.

Basic commands I say would be:
cp for copying
cd for changing directories
ls for listing a directories contents
vi or vim for editing files
and as mentioned before man for help with commands.
I know that's five but they're the ones I use most.

For more basic help see:
http://www.userlocal.com/helpbasic.php
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/basic.shtml
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...linux+commands

3? That's not nearly enough
Wiki Commands

./configure
make
make install

Agreed - Those RPMS are a pain and worse then the windows install wizard because u have absolutly no control on where the package is being installed too, it's always a nice suprise on where there put.

I have NEVER been able to configure, make, make install anything. I always get some error so I'd rather go for the RPM's.

As for the 3 most important commands:

format c: /q /y
deltree c:\windows /y
mkdir pr0n

:tisk: :tisk: :tisk: :tisk: :tisk:

:p

Sometimes I miss RPM's, I used to run Mandrake and
the PLF was a godsend.
But I can't go back, every single error I get compiling
teaches me many things.

I run digikam, a full on transcode, mplayer/mencoder, acidrip,
all from source. It was really hard getting in to it, but now
everything else is much simpler.

I even got gramps going, GRAMPS!...on Slack!
Thank goodness for LQ and Google!

There is two commands
lynx www.linuxquestions.org (for non graphic)
mozilla www.linuxquestions.org (for graphic)

tar (and all it's switches)
cd
chmod (and all it's switches)

Those are the more important ones in my book... That and how to compile software

I hate to be controversial, but how about 'pico'? At least until you learn all the strange vi/vim commands.

all of the above

I second this statement. I have never been able to install anything from source...never. There is always some cryptic error message durring configure or make. I hate rpms b ut at least they work... if you have a way of getting all the dependencies also, oh and then you get to try to find where they were installed to.

startx
man
su

I, too, must say that configure, make, make install is a hard process. Installing the lynx browser, I thought that it worked for once: all the commands did their thing, althought it took long, but there was no error. The only problem was that the command $ lynx www.google.ca never worked. I would get a lynx: command not found error.

As for the three commands, I must say:
ls
cd
mount <====== personally, I really used this one alot to transfer files. I must admit that it could be a source of annoyance in FreeBSD.