What are some of the everyday commands used for an average user?

statyk · 12-16-2003, 08:52 PM

What are some of the useful everyday commands used by an average user to accomplish tasks like finding all files containing "xxx" text, unpacking compressed files, finding a certain file doing a search starting from the root, delete, copying, and moving files. I think that the syntax might be different from distro to distro but the main commands would be very helpful. I could look in the man/info pages for more detail on the files to get a better understanding if I run into problems.

Thanx

AltF4 · 12-16-2003, 09:13 PM

finding text in files: grep
(un)packing: gzip, bzip2, tar, cpio
finding files: find
copy: cp
delete: rm
move: mv

statyk · 12-16-2003, 09:17 PM

Thanxs alot ...will look into them, if you can think of anymore useful ones then I will appreciate it greatly....again thanx

caid · 12-16-2003, 09:24 PM

also

finding files: locate, updatedb (to update the locate db)
making symbolic links e.g. to devices: ln -s
to remove a non-empty dir: rm -fR dirname (if you have permission)
to change permissions of a file: chmod
to copy a dir: cp -r dirname copydirname

caid

Tinkster · 12-16-2003, 09:39 PM

man
man -k (alias apropos)
whereis
which
chown
chgrp
ls :}
cd
pwd

Cheers,
Tink

AltF4 · 12-16-2003, 09:47 PM

man pages you might want to read:

shell: bash
editor: vi, emacs
permissions: chmod, chown
watching files: tail
reading files: cat, more, less
tools: sort, uniq, grep, find, wc, sed, awk
programming: perl

regular expressions:
- http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression,
- Mastering Regular Expressions (the Hip Owl Book): ISBN 1-56592-257-3