what do these linux commands means?

shinwai · 08-31-2005, 07:49 AM

1. whereis ls
Is it a command where it list out the Location of a binary, source, and manual page files for a command?
2. cat .bashrc
is it mean it read the .bashrc contents?

Thanks~

Nylex · 08-31-2005, 07:53 AM

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Originally posted by shinwai
1. whereis ls
Is it a command where it list out the Location of a binary, source, and manual page files for a command?

Yes. In your case, you're asking it to locate those for the command "ls".

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2. cat .bashrc
is it mean it read the .bashrc contents?

Thanks~

Yep (well, the man page says, "concatenate files and print to standard output" or something similar). You could of course have tried them out for yourself to see..

shinwai · 08-31-2005, 08:46 AM

Well, how to display August 2005 calendar?
wat's the code?
is it ~/calendar.August2005?

teebones · 08-31-2005, 09:06 AM

well...

you could cat this file
'cat kalenderfilename'

but you could also do

'less kalenderfilename'

(for ascii files only)

if you want to execute it:

./kalenderfilename

(this only works for scripts or binary files)

phil.d.g · 08-31-2005, 09:18 AM

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Originally posted by shinwai
Well, how to display August 2005 calendar?
wat's the code?
is it ~/calendar.August2005?

Only if you have a script or binary in your home directory that displays the Aug 2005 calendar

These sound suspiciously like home work questions and you'll not learn much by having people look up the answers for you. One thing I will tell you is the command man prints a manual page for the command you supply, so if you type `man man` you will find out how to use the man command then you can type `man whereis` to learn what the whereis command does

XavierP · 08-31-2005, 02:02 PM

And that's all folks.

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Do not expect LQ members to do your homework - you will learn much more by doing it yourself.

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Go here for more info on commands. This thread is closed.

shinwai · 08-31-2005, 08:24 PM

It is not a homework but you people keep on saying that's homework...sweat...asking a question also cannot?

XavierP · 09-01-2005, 06:25 AM

You posted a thread which just had a list of questions. That usually signifies that someone is asking for help on a home/classwork assignment. If you had expanded on your questions and told us what you need them for, you won't be accused of asking us to do your work.

Leaving thread open to see what transpires.......

phil.d.g · 09-01-2005, 06:51 AM

They are basic commands that can be easily read up upon. You could easily just type them in your terminal and see what happens and if you are worried about damaging your system then use `man` to find out information about the commands