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Re[4]: man pages - second try
/Sorry about previous empty mail - after disk crash & partitioning I forgot to
make `chmod 1777 /tmp' :-( /
"Shlomo Solomon" <solomon@shani.net> wrote:
> But this brings up another question - as a *newbie* (or should I say
> a *lurker*) who has been following this list for several month before
> even installing LINUX, I knew that I must read the documentation
> before I ask what might be silly questions. So even before
> installing, I read (almost from cover to cover) the 1100 page "LINUX
> UNLEASHED" and the Walsh installation guide, and I've read HOWTO's
> where I thought they might apply to whatever I was doing.
I see Marc's grinning with satisfaction :)
> But in all
> this reading, I didn't come accoss a list of basic commands and/or
> utilities. I didn't even know that "df" existed. Just as I didn't
> know about "mseg" which someone told me about on this list a few
> weeks ago in helping me solve another problem. And there must be many
> more important programs that I should know about.
I haven't read "LINUX UNLEASHED"; the "Installation Giude" does the job it's
supposed to do: helps installing linux, and it does it very good, IMO. There are
quite a few good books about Unix administration. Refering to "basic utilities":
look in the /bin directory. Whatever you see there are basic utilities. Do `man'
on each of them. Then go to /sbin... then /usr/bin and /usr/sbin ... ok, now you
can earn good $$ as a sysadm :)
> Where can I find a comprehensive list (sort of a user's manual) -
> either on paper or (better still) on-line ???
man is such a list. And you can get it on-line or in printed form (CheapBytes
sell it for something like $10). But it's impossible to remember all the
commands. Instead, you should make a search any time you need to understand
something: `man -k disk' would give not so long list of appropriative utilities,
df among them.
Regards,
Evgeny
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