commands

[zizzyzix]

hmmm my question is in "questions" and i really do not have a messaage soo

[Snowhog]

Re: commands

Generally, when one speaks of a 'command,' it is in reference to a running such within a console (Konsole in Kubuntu), which is a shell 'outside of' the KDE GUI desktop environment. You would be well served to pick up a reference book. One that I have on hand is Linux in a Nutshell, published by O'Reilly. There are others of course, but this is a good one to have. Then again, you can pick up any of the published books specifically on Ubuntu.

[Rog131]

Re: commands

As Snowhog said: It is good to have Linux (Unix) book for references.

Net is full of various Linux command list/howto's, here are two:

An A-Z Index of the Linux BASH command line
http://www.ss64.com/bash/

Getting Started with BASH - A Bash Tutorial
http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php

You can get info of commands in the konsole: man <command>

:~$ man man

will tell:

MAN(1) Manual pager utils MAN(1)

NAME
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals

SYNOPSIS
man [-c|-w|-tZ] [-H[browser]] [-T[device]] [-X[dpi]] [-adhu7V] [-i|-I]
[-m system[,...]] [-L locale] [-p string] [-C file] [-M path] [-P
pager] [-r prompt] [-S list] [-e extension] [[section] page ...] ...
man -l [-7] [-tZ] [-H[browser]] [-T[device]] [-X[dpi]] [-p string] [-P
pager] [-r prompt] file ...
man -k [apropos options] regexp ...
man -f [whatis options] page ...

DESCRIPTION
man is the system’s manual pager. Each page argument given to man is
normally the name of a program, utility or function. The manual page
associated with each of these arguments is then found and displayed. A
section, if provided, will direct man to look only in that section of
the manual. The default action is to search in all of the available
sections, following a pre-defined order and to show only the first page
found, even if page exists in several sections.

and in the konqueror: man:<command>
man:man will tell:

[zizzyzix]

Re: commands

Thank You Snowhog and Rog 131

[eriefisher]

Re: commands

Another excellent book is The Linux Cookbook 2nd Edition by Michael Stutz. It starts with the very basics and progresses from there. I always keep it close.

eriefisher

[sugarland2k]

Re: commands

I like and use the Linux Cookbook also for details on commands. There are some good sites on the web also like....

http://www.linuxcommand.org/

http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmd.htm

and many more, a good Google search for "learning Linux commands" works!
FYI - Google runs on Linux also!

Billy