New forum-"Linux commands"

I have been and still am a member of lot of forums,but I haven`t seen on any of them "Linux commands".I think it would be a great thing if LQ becomes the first one(for as much as I know) that will create this forum . I don`t have to say how much easyer would be for me to find commands I am interested,that way,and for many others too.
Think about if every LQ newbie,member etc.would put just one command in the list.I had many problems with this and I know many do.Since LQ is my favorite forum I would like to see this forum here,and not go around the internet searching for "what that command means?"

That would produce a huge list, which would probably be partly non-compliant with some flavours of Linux/UNIX, because different versions of different programs ("commands") may act differently.

Another thing is that most of the commands are documented in your system, so you do not need to visit LQ for that.

command --help

usually reveals what a command does. More specifically

man command

displays, if available, the manual page of "command" ('info command' is another one - but I prefer man, whatever gnu folks say)

Then if you don't know what you're looking for,

apropos keyword
man -k keyword

displays, if any are found, a list of relevant manual pages whose description or name include something like "keyword". Then you can go trough that list and see which one is appropriate, and view those man-pages to get a better understanding.

Oh, and man-pages are on the web too. A web search engine usually turns them up quickly if you're searching for some command.

Reading books is also valuable. There are a lot of books about UNIX/Linux, among them a lot of good ones. It doesn't harm you to loan or buy one yourself, and study it. But really, just to find a command to do something..a web search is probably faster than a search at LQ on a forum that has thousands of entries, written by users who write the descriptions differently from each other, making it look awful

man, apropos, info and a visit to /usr/doc usually helps if you're out of reach of an internet connection.

One good method:
Go to tldp.org and download the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. Use this for searches. (Unless you are really into tree abuse, don't print it.)

This type of content is really more suited for the LQ Wiki, and not the forum. If any commands are missing, please do feel free to add them. Also, for commands that are already in there, you can add tips/tricks/etc.

--jeremy

Thanks for your replies,I understand and respect your suggestions.
What I had on mind is just the ability to discuss some commands, explain them in a simple way,to see which one and when is better to use,to discover new ones etc.Since forum is more interactive place,thought it would be a good place for that.I must say that sometimes I find man pages really not helping me.Anyway,Linux Wiki is a good place to start and I hope it will grow.

I think a better use would be to use the wiki to show advanced techniques. Like how to transform a pdf file to view it in runlevel 3 with full graphics. Or how to manage 1000 systems at once via ssh ;-)

Are you perhaps suggesting that bash or shell scripting should be a sub-forum in Programming? That would suit me, then I could subscribe to it, right now I don't dare subscribe to Programming because of all the C, Perl, etc. stuff that I have no interest in.

Or maybe I should subscribe to it for a while & see for sure.