how-to on the commands?
 

Is there a printable how-to giving a liste of the most usefull basic prompt commands?

IIRC section 3 of the Introduction to Linux[1] guide from TLDP [2] is of such sort. Also you might want to check out Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly [3].

[1]http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#intro-linux
[2]http://www.tldp.org
[3]http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut3/

thank you. it is not exactly what i was expecting, but it will do verry fine.

I think one of the links in my sig are also helpful for this..

Cool

get the bash howto

grep
dd
find
locate
gzip
tar
ls
cat
mv
rm

examples

grep poop *
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigemptyfilethatfillsupyourdisk
find / -name poop -print
locate poop
gzip poop
gzip -d poop.gz
tar clfvz - . >/backup.tgz
ls --color
cat poop|more
mv poop notpoop
rm notpoop