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- dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12A lot of these commands are mostly useless for newbies and even experienced users. Why does a newbie need awk? I admin a whole cluster of Linux boxen and I only use awk on occasion in administrative shell scripts, and even then I usually have to look up the correct syntax on Google. case is really only useful when writing a shell script, or if you happen to be uber-leet and you're writing some insane one-liner for a very specific task. cfdisk? You'll need this at most once each time you install. The list goes on and on...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Ah yes indeed. "cd" to the path of the True Haxx0r.
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This list really does need a little bit more explanations. I mean, yeah it tells you that ____ does ____, but they could have gone in with greater detail on how to use the command, and what it does using various options.
I know, I know, "Just google it idiot", but the whole point of making a list for people to use, is to make it useful.
To me this is just another list, no different from any other list of commands that I will never look at again in my life. - JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@omghi2u2: You're joking, and it's not funny.
EDIT: OK, all of your other posts are ***** too. *Block* - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I can't believe they left off apropos...
I was using apropos and man practically every other command when i got started with linux; I still use them even now.
all you need to know (really!) to use the linux CLI:
apropos "searchstring"
man "commandname"
after that just learn how to use a pipe | and you'll be a pro. - Dweller99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8thanks for the tip about apropos
My first attempt at learning linux a few years ago I got frustrated trying to figure out how much free space I had and did not know which man page I should look at.
its df by the way. - cecil_t, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; fsck; yes; umount; sleep;
- hobophobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Generally you're better off with google or IRC (freenode) for gnu/linux help.
Google first, and if it's not some rudimentary linux function try your distro's channel on freenode or the app's channel on freenode. The people who use linux like to help each other, so don't be afraid to ask; and while you're there if someone asks a question that you know the answer to, don't be afraid to help them too.
http://www.google.com/
http://www.freenode.net/ - jimbalaya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8'man -k' is the same as apropos on most linux / unix distros, if you are like me and don't like typing apropos everytime.
- prophet6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Though OSX is BSD and not Linux, they're both still POSIX, and so it's a fine place to learn your way around the commandline. In my experience as both a OSX and a Linux user, the shell experience changes very little (as long as you're using bash).
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I believe you still can.
- omghi2u2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can't believe they included rcp and not scp. That list was written a decade ago.
- zippinhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The first thing the article mentions is how to use "man"!
- metafore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5ty. i'm on my way across the border from nub to sr. nub.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually, it's been turned into another recursive acronym. Originally, yes, it was called "Red Hat Package Manager".
But now it's simply "RPM Package Manager", with the 'R' *officially* standing for "RPM".
Of course you are right that the 'R' never stood for "Remote". - nevetS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's good to have a list out there, so don't get me wrong, but...
I don't know that a newbie needs to know commands like seq, cut, csplit, etc. - certainly not to start playing around with it. rpm? Maybe if you're playing with redhat. What about apt-get or aptitude.
I would think a better front page digg would be something that took 10 or 20 commands, gave sample syntax, usage scenarios, and instructions for getting more info (not everything has a man page that's simple enough for a newbie to follow).
I can imagine if a newbie tried running vi to see what it did, then had no idea how to quit, or even that he was in a file editor. - itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The Linuxes - Serious Business.
- prophet6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This isn't really a newbie's guide to Linux so much as a newbie's guide to the commandline *on* Linux, which you don't *have* to use at all. Many people are starting to realize though, that the past 25 years of pointing and clicking has been generally reverse-progress in user-interfaces, and BASH is frequently much more convenient than Gnome or Windows.
Since the MS-DOS shell is a largely neglected and vestigial part of Windows these days, it's hard for most people with a Windows background to appreciate how powerful a commandline like bash can be. It took me a while to get my head around it at first.
I agree with above comments, though, that many items on this list are far from newbie-oriented. I do regular expression oriented work in Linux extensively in my job, and I've barely ever used awk. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@jimbalaya
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you just blew my mind. Thanks for the tip; I wish I had known this earlier...
Maybe now i'll just start telling people to just type "man man", read that, and that's all you need. - duality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tweakers, this may be slightly off-topic, but I'm going to post it anyway. I was a rather vehement Emacs user until just after I started my university's Unix course. It was this tutorial on vi that tipped my preferences in that direction.
http://cs.okstate.edu/~cs2351/Labs/unix01.html
And yes, apropos is everybody's friend, whether you're a Unix newbie or an expert. That's how I once found the "unix2dos" and "dos2unix" commands that allowed me to test scripts I wrote for both the Windows and Unix versions of a program I needed to use. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3jimbalaya posted this up a bit, but just fyi:
'man -k' is the same as 'apropos'
so you really only need to remember one command (you can just do 'man man'). Saves a few keystrokes too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd have to second the advice to check out an IRC board, especially a distro-specific one. I use Debian (if you can't tell from the icon) and I usually will get a solution to even fairly mundane questions withing a few minutes from somebody in the Debian rooms
- capiCrimm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2a better point in case is m4.
- fac3less, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2RPM isn't remote package manager.
It's redhat package manager.
The list creator is a newblet. - nuxrl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember the old days, you could do "man intro" on Unix to get a list of commands along with a brief description for each command.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Indeed:
$ man intro
on my box (Kubuntu 6.10) gets you into the UNIX command line, at least providing some of the rudimentary functionality required to use the shell like a file manager.
Good call nuxrl and chapium! I think any user's first login on any UNIX shell should display this tip. - spindle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Everything I use my terminal for now, there is another way to get it done through the graphical user interface. So, I technically don't have to use the terminal at all. I do sometimes, though, either because it's quicker or just because it's a habit.
And I definitely don't know 200 commands, and I've been using Linux for at least 5 years now. - khilari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2told ya linux was sexy
- fifrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is lame. If this post was created for real newbs then it would have an explanation and examples for each.
- davefretty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just done a man intro and a whole load of stuff came up (very technical I know).
I'm not by any means a linux guru but they haven't listed mkisofs which seems like a glaring omission to me. - sandrejev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just try to remember how much you spent to configure your "samba" (don't remember what it is called on window). Actually there are big chances that it will work right out of the box, but if something went wrong you probably end up searching the register to find what is wrong, which doesn't work 90% of the time.
What i wanted to say is that GUI staff is less powerful then CLI and Windows CLI sucks. Of course not all noobs need to know what each command means, there are plenty of GUI apps on linux to. - godd4242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm approaching that checkpoint as well.
Although I am tempted to become an illegal immigrant to Vista land, just to try it out :3 - Xilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmm...
"Eject CD-ROM"
Quote from man page:
"eject - eject removable media"
Big difference there. - Godzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems like you could easily generate this list using the "whatis" command.
"ls /usr/bin | xargs -n 1 whatis" - noddyxoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man this seems spomsored by MS.
In linux i use about i use about 10 commands, like :
cd
./configure; make install
cp
mv
ifconfig
./program_name
man
AND USE ZSH command completion to make life really easy for instance typing the name of a movie or document file and it opens automatically. - tradderjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unix in a nutshell or linux in a nutshell
is always handy on a shelf close at hand.
Just looked bookpool.com is having a sale
guess i will go broke here in a few minutes - PerryG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0turp,
It's BSD-style Unix for newbies which is a bit different from System V. This is a good thing IMOH... - PerryG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dunno, the site doesn't seem to prioritize between the most simple file and directory navigation commands from the command line (you can't break this) and fdisk which can hose a system badly in the wrong hands. Here's one I needed to be taught as a newbie some years ago. How do you back up? If you know cd it's real vague from the docs in a CLI to know that a double dot equals go to an upper lever in a directory structure from where you are in the file system. Back in the day, it was also helpful to me as a newbie to have pico as a text editor instead of vi...
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6I always hated it how everyone related commands to dos commands
I never used dos either. So i gave up linux for osx, which is truly linux for newbies. - dkoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1lol you guys said linux is much easier to use than windows, and then you tell me even noobs have to remember 200 commands?
- deklund, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0What a lot of people seem not to realize is that there's a Microsoft-developed shell for Windows (and no, it's not DOS) that's much more powerful in terms of flexibility than bash.
It may not have all the wacky text editing and parsing commands as your standard *nix environment, but then they're mostly unnecessary, as the output from standard commands are fully-featured .NET objects, and you can pipe them as input to other cmdlets using the usual syntax ("command1 | command2") rather than having to do everything in text, as you have to with a standard shell.
Windows PowerShell: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx - ghostu, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2 this is very detailed basic linux commands for all linux users with man pages,syntax http://www.debianadmin.com/basic-linux-commands-with-man-pages.html
- loconet, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I can't believe they didn't include "man"
- sameerb, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Easiest command- www.qunu.com
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -22/+3http://*****.com/
google.com/linux
Will usually end up in a man page mirror. - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -23/+4fscking noobs!
- sameerb, on 10/12/2007, -22/+2www.qunu.com
- omghi2u2, on 10/12/2007, -29/+0OSX is based on DOS, not Linux, you n00b!
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