Okay I have created YET ANOTHER THREAD... if you are new to linux and you would like to know how a command functions on its backend or what a command is actually doing. Please post it below: If a lot of interest comes around after about 7- 10 days I may make a good long thread explaining how the commands work
RULES: Post the name of the command If it is DISTRO specific please post the distro Specific version differences will not be discussed as those are for change logs. Be civilized(If there are multiple commands.. put them in ONE post... not thousands.. Be organized. I want to help as much as possible but I cant if everything is all jumbled up
Thanks... and Lets see how much this grows... Ill compile all the requests in a word doc daily...
If you need an immediate reply even though it will eventually go into a nice terminology post eventually.. PM me or any expert willing to help. Thanks
REMINDER
I AM ONLY ONE PERSON... IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO HELP ITS WELCOME... BUT REALIZE FOR NOW I AM A ONE MAN ARMY LOLS
cat FILENAME (reads file and displays the contents of file, Super useful) nano FILENAME (simple text editor that works inside the terminal, there are others but this is the simplest)
Guys I meant post the command if you dont know what its function is.. but hey at least that helps others :D... but for F U T U R E reference... this is for things you do not know so you can learn.
Yeah.. But this post was for the newbz so we could actually help them understand that.. I think we can read that and say cool it does that but... Let's explain to them what it actually is doing on the computer side.. If they want to know haha
most important of all - man (shows manpages for commands)
ls -l (lists files in a directory) sleep (waits given number of seconds - useful to time commands) killall (kills process) ssh scp lspci, lsusb, lshw,....
sudo !! This will run your last command with admin privileges in case you forgot to elevate them the first try.
rm -rf / Recursively remove everything in your root directory. Sometimes you don't want to copy paste random commands you find on the internet and see what happens.
history | grep something Find all previous commands containing the word something. Or you can use Ctrl + r and start typing something. Press Ctrl+r again to cycle through the results and then Enter to execute. I like to tag commands I know I'll be using again by appending a # and an easy to remember name.
