how-to on the commands?

beserier · 01-14-2003, 05:57 AM

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

0x0001 · 01-14-2003, 06:14 AM

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/

beserier · 01-14-2003, 07:40 AM

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

MasterC · 01-14-2003, 11:18 AM

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

Cool

whansard · 01-14-2003, 06:58 PM

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