Re: Command line reference
The suggestions provided by others already are great and I don't mean to
beat a dead horse. If you really want a straight up list for *your*
system, just `ls' /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/bin. Then you can
pop open man as something in the list interests you.
Secondly, as has been mentioned already, a Unix reference will likely be
of help. It won't cover package management or configuring hardware,
because that is vendor and architecture specific. Still, there is a lot
to chew on. Even old Unix books that you can get at used book stores or
the library are a fun read. I have one published in 1982 and the first
commands it mentions are `ed' and `troff'. Just about everything in a
book published 25 years ago is applicable to Debian. You'll gain
exposure to technologies that have gone out of favor like UUCP.
Hope that helps,
-Jeff
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 11:35 -0600, Hodgins Family wrote:
> Good morning!
>
> Quick, how many commands are there at the disposal of a CLI enthusiast?
> Every time some newbie asks how to do this that or something else, along
> comes a new command "that-was-always-there" but sort of "unknown". Now
> that's security through obscurity for you! This is not a rant....I love the
> number of commands in Linux and the control that they can give.
>
> But I'd like to see, ideally in one place, ALL the Debian commands. Then
> instead of asking someone on the list (bless ya, guys and girls) how I can
> to XYZ via ABC given that LMN are doing a QRS, I could peruse this one place
> and then toddle off to the man pages (or google or whereever) to get the
> syntax and nitty-gritty.
>
> And then if all goes fubar I could ask for help :)
>
> Is there such a site?
>
> FWIW, googling "Debian command line reference" gave no hits. Googling "Linux
> command line reference" gave some 1160 inlcuding this one:
> http://mygamecompany.com/Linux/Commandline/linuxcommandline.htm, but how
> much is Debian?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
>
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