On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 05:23:12PM +0000, MR Essop wrote: > I don't only want to start x. I want to learn bash so well that I can make > breakfast with it (it and python). I can ls around, know of pwd, grep and > similar but have no idea what they actually do - note, some virtual bash > consoles don't have man pages. >
Use a desktop browser, such as firefox. Use the distro to install it, and use the distro to install man and man-pages. Once you have a graphical browser, google can usually answer most of the queries - you might need to reformulate the search [ e.g. for scripting in bash always mention /bin/bash to reduce unrelated uses of bash ]. e.g. google for grep manpage Whatever you search for, many of the results will be irrelevant. Such is life, but the information is usually out there. > I don't understand the tree structure of *nix. Why is there a bin there... > And there. And they seem to be linked (symlinked? Added to PATH? Piped?? Same > setup on all linuxes?). Not totally the same on all, and some are moving to get away from the separation of /usr. > What is | for anyway? What is etc, usr, mnt Google FHS. >and why do I always end up breaking any linux even with no admin rights? I >know the answer to this - because I experiment (that's how I've learnt what I >know to date... At the cost of having to reformat partitions) Your idea of 'no admin rights' isn't mine :) On a regular distro, a normal user can only write to their own files. If you logged in as root, or used 'su' (or 'sudo') then you own the system (subject to any restrictions it imposes on you, e.g. sudo might be tied down). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
