On Friday 30 March 2001 21:38, you wrote:
> I too would appreciate the same documents. So far most of the ones I have
> go right over my head with no info on commands for me to get familiar with
> first before actually typing them in and sitting back to see what happens.
>
> Thank you in advance.
Ok well as said before www.linuxdoc.org has all available documentation and
howtos beside that i can give you some very usefull tricks.
For example you can always if you want to do something but you dont know
which command (program) to use use the apropos and whatis comands
example: you want to read mail and you need a mail prog type:
$ apropos mail it will list you all comands that have something to do with
mail
Same thing the other way around you know there is a prog called pine but you
dont know what it does type:
$ whatis pine it will tell you what pine is for .
To find out how to use pine type:
$ man pine
also one of the best features in linux is that you dont need to write the
whole comand its enough if you write the first letter or the first 2 letters
and press TAB it will then list you all commands (programs) which start with
that letter and so on. The same works with almost everything in linux you
dont ever need to write a full path its enough if you want to go lets say to
the dir /usr/local/bin/netscape type:
$ cd /usTAB/locTAB/bTAB/neTAB it will fill in the missing pieces as soon as
you hit the TAB key .
To update the whatis/apropos database type:
$ makewhatis
good luck and give it a try that makes the handling of the system a lot
quicker (BTW) even win2k has adapted this TAB thing now .
Reg.
Florian Struck
