Hi Peter, You will undoubtedly get more responses, but in the meantime, go to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/ to see all the available commands.
For example, the pwd command is found here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/pwd-1?l=en&a=view&q=pwd If you know the command name and just want to view the information from the prompt while you are working, type: man command For example: sr1-uego02-02{pennyc}2: man pwd Reformatting page. Please Wait... done User Commands pwd(1) NAME pwd - return working directory name SYNOPSIS /usr/bin/pwd DESCRIPTION The pwd utility writes an absolute path name of the current working directory to standard output. ... Please write me if you would like to know more about man pages, docs.sun.com, and other documentation sites for OpenSolaris. Thanks, Penny On 11/30/09 01:26, peter joseph wrote: > Upon hearing all the noise Sun Micro has been making regarding OpenSolaris I > decided to give it a try. SM promptly sent me a CD, free of charge, which I > immediately installed on my laptop. Installation was as smooth as baby's > but. Even though I have been using Fedora for a number of years, when it > came to Solaris system command structure I was totally lost. Searching the > system and the CD was of no help. Sun website, as usual, full of > we-are-the-best stuff while short on useful info proved to be just that -- no > useful info pertaining to commands. > I could have been looking in wrong places, but any Linux website you go to > will readily direct you to a ton of links dealing with this subject. > Opensolaris seems to be a great os, but I have to ask; Who is behind this > disjointed presentation of it? Why is it that everything that comes out of > Sun Microsystems is so screwed up? Is it beyond their capability to put > together a simple command list? If so, use the common Unix-based commands > rather than some exotic commands conjured up by some Debian genius. > It's too bad. I do admit, it has a potential, nevertheless, not being able > to work with it I had to dump it. > Hopefully, Oracle will clean the house...
