Anywhere to go for helpful commands?

MooCows · 12-30-2004, 07:51 AM

Since I installed Mandrake right from a download, I didn't get much in the way of documentation but have been making my way around without too much searching. Is there anywhere I can go to find a big list of commonly used commands and some easy to understand explations of them?

masand · 12-30-2004, 08:13 AM

the best place is man pages

for example run

apropos mount

this will give u list of all man pages that have mount in their description

then
man <man page>

will help u
regards

cadkins · 12-30-2004, 11:10 AM

sometimes those man pages give me nothing I can use. Either that or I'm just an idiot

I went out and bought Running Linux from O'Reilly. It certainly helped me out quite a bit with learning how Linux is structrued and some more "common" commands.

However, google is your friend

masand · 12-30-2004, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cadkins
sometimes those man pages give me nothing I can use. Either that or I'm just an idiot

I went out and bought Running Linux from O'Reilly. It certainly helped me out quite a bit with learning how Linux is structrued and some more "common" commands.

However, google is your friend

have u tried apropos?

mount --help
will give u a very short description of those commands
for full description u should try
man mount

then u should also have a look at
tldp.org

a good linux documentation site

regards

ryedunn · 12-30-2004, 12:20 PM

http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/in...topic=503&st=0

scuzzman · 12-30-2004, 03:59 PM

http://www.tldp.org

mugstar · 12-30-2004, 04:20 PM

Yes. Here.

shengchieh · 12-30-2004, 04:33 PM

See my newly formed webpage,

http://www.websamba.com/Linux_Docs_Links

Sheng-Chieh