Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

[Al Plant]

Matthias Apitz wrote:

Hello,

In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled
over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/
which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my
wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop. Is there something
like this for FreeBSD, and even in Spanish? Thanks

matthias

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Aloha Matthias,

I have one of the cards for Unix (Generic)

I have seen them in Drug (Pharmacia) Stores in several countries I have 
been to, Canada and Argentina for 2)  for all sorts of how to's. Not 
just computers. I have seen English and Spanish language.


The manufacturer of the UNIX one is Bar Charts of Boca Raton Fla,

www.quickstudycharts.com

ot www.barcharts.com

Happy coaching.

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Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

[James Seward]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Matthias Apitz  wrote:
> In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled
> over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/
> which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my
> wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop. Is there something
> like this for FreeBSD, and even in Spanish? Thanks

Not quite the same, but have a look at the Rosetta Stone for Unix:
http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

/JMS
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Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, September 11, 2009 a las 12:21:41PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias 
escribió:

> Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled
> > over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/
> > which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my
> > wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop. Is there something
> > like this for FreeBSD, and even in Spanish? Thanks
> >
> > matthias
> >   
> 
> It wouldn't be difficult to do something similar. Looking at the Greek
> version of the debian card, most commands are basic ones with similar
> function in FreeBSD. We could replace the apt-get section with commands
> from the ports system and pkg_* and the /etc/init.d/ section with
> /etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
> 
> I'll try to make up an  initial English version this weekend.

That would be very fine; please, can you describe also what software from the
ports one must use for "Of course, you may alter the reference card to
you needs and create a cusomised refcard. You need to apt-get install
the following packages first: docbook-xsl, pdfjam, pdftk, po4a, xmlroff,
poppler-utils, and xsltproc."

I'd be more than happy to make a Spanish and German translation of it.

matthias
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Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

[Manolis Kiagias]

Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled
> over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/
> which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my
> wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop. Is there something
> like this for FreeBSD, and even in Spanish? Thanks
>
>   matthias
>   

It wouldn't be difficult to do something similar. Looking at the Greek
version of the debian card, most commands are basic ones with similar
function in FreeBSD. We could replace the apt-get section with commands
from the ports system and pkg_* and the /etc/init.d/ section with
/etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

I'll try to make up an  initial English version this weekend.
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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Lloyd Hayes]

OK, the book is up to version 4 (Something.) There are lots of new 
features in version 5

I'm going to try re-installing it again. In reading through this, there 
seems to be a sample config file that is copied to my hard drive that I 
can start with and modify. I think that probably I have been deleting it 
when creating new config files.

To delete FreeBSD I simply delete the partition, create the same 
partition as a DOS partition and format it, then delete the DOS 
partition and create the FreeBSD partition. This removes all previous 
information creating a clean slate. Using System Commander program for 
partitioning. It also works with Win XP with it's NTFS file system. I 
had noticed before that by simply deleting the partition and then 
re-creating it without any changes, the FreeBSD files were still there.

Here I go again.
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Matt Navarre wrote:

Lloyd Hayes wrote:
I agree with everything you've said here. I have considered a UNIX 
type book. In fact I have looked at 'The Complete FreeBSD' book, but 
I believe that your version is still the current version. 
Doubtful, mine's from 1997 and came with FreeBSD 2.2.5 on CD. I'm 
pretty sure there's a newer version :)

One thing. I didn't have any idea that the line commands were much 
different from the old CP/M commands. And what is really startling is 
the lack of information about this to new people switching systems.

Well, CP/M and Unix are just different. I can certainly see where it 
could be disorienting though.

Here's a help site that has dos and VMS commands and their unix 
equivalents.
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/

I'm sure there's others.
Anyway, I created a partition on my backup computer so that I could 
play with FreeBSD and get used to it and see if I really liked it. 
From what I had read and seen, FreeBSD had the features that I was 
looking for. My worst case scenario is that I can't get a grip on 
this and stay with Windows, which I really hate 

Understandable.
Or I could switch to a version of Linux. Time is my most expensive 
commodity. This is an experiment for me, and is the first time that 
I've used a non-Microsoft system in 10 years. Most of the systems 
that I had used for the 15 years before that were non-Microsoft 
systems. Me and William Gates have just never seen eye-to-eye on 
software.

You'd have the same problems with the Linux command line as FreeBSD, 
since they're basically the same at the user level. And spiffy GUI or 
no, you really need the command line for most of the admin tasks 
you'll need to do, since everything is configured with text files. 
Spend some time playing around and I'll bet you're up and running 
faster than you think. The unix learning curve is famously steep, but 
tends to climb in a lot of little "plateaus" as you learn stuff.

It does take time, but I think it's worth the effort.
I just glanced at the Gateway computer. No graphics desktop yet, but 
I do have a graphic screen saver

Lloyd Hayes
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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Matt Navarre]

Lloyd Hayes wrote:
I agree with everything you've said here. I have considered a UNIX type 
book. In fact I have looked at 'The Complete FreeBSD' book, but I 
believe that your version is still the current version. 
Doubtful, mine's from 1997 and came with FreeBSD 2.2.5 on CD. I'm pretty 
sure there's a newer version :)

One thing. I 
didn't have any idea that the line commands were much different from the 
old CP/M commands. And what is really startling is the lack of 
information about this to new people switching systems.
Well, CP/M and Unix are just different. I can certainly see where it 
could be disorienting though.

Here's a help site that has dos and VMS commands and their unix equivalents.
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/
I'm sure there's others.
Anyway, I created a partition on my backup computer so that I could play 
with FreeBSD and get used to it and see if I really liked it. From what 
I had read and seen, FreeBSD had the features that I was looking for. My 
worst case scenario is that I can't get a grip on this and stay with 
Windows, which I really hate 
Understandable.
Or I could switch to a version of 
Linux. Time is my most expensive commodity. This is an experiment for 
me, and is the first time that I've used a non-Microsoft system in 10 
years. Most of the systems that I had used for the 15 years before that 
were non-Microsoft systems. Me and William Gates have just never seen 
eye-to-eye on software.
You'd have the same problems with the Linux command line as FreeBSD, 
since they're basically the same at the user level. And spiffy GUI or 
no, you really need the command line for most of the admin tasks you'll 
need to do, since everything is configured with text files. Spend some 
time playing around and I'll bet you're up and running faster than you 
think. The unix learning curve is famously steep, but tends to climb in 
a lot of little "plateaus" as you learn stuff.

It does take time, but I think it's worth the effort.
I just glanced at the Gateway computer. No graphics desktop yet, but I 
do have a graphic screen saver

Lloyd Hayes
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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[hoe-waa]

Aloha
I am always happy to help. I am a real newbie to FBSD
I have been using it for about 6 months. In the early 
80's I used cli on Unix V when I worked for the Death
Star company. I was then forced to migrate to Dos and
then to Windows because all the clients needed any
correspondence or proposals in word or excel.
Now that I am retired (the only way to live) I have
played around with linux and have now migrated to FBSD.

I have learned quite a bit in 6 months by lurking and
installing and re-installing and re-installing on 4 
different systems that I have pieced together. 
Read, study, take notes, lurk and most of all try it out. there is no substitute for 
doing. 
There is so much to learn that this hobby is getting 
in the way of my beach time.

Don't be afraid to ask questions and always provide
as much info as possible. Better to be verbose rather
than brief.

With that said, be sure to cc the list when answering
questions or giving info. There are a lot of us lurking out
there and are waiting for the answer.

When you use the linux page, make sure you check the
options against the man pages on your system. There are
differrences and they will bite!

Have fun
Robert

- Original Message -
From: Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:04 pm
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Commands

> Thanks for the link and the Welcome. In looking at the website, it 
> appears to be what the doctor ordered.
> 
> For the record, I have been looking at the UNIX type software and 
> operating system for some time now. Obviously not at the details of 
> the 
> line commands and setup, but at the software that it runs, and it's 
> stability related to older equipment. This older Gateway that I am 
> installing FreeBSD on is a good example. I think that I bought it 
> around 
> February 1998. I special ordered it at the time from Gateway. It 
> serves 
> as my backup computer now, and recently served as my primary 
> computer 
> while my main laptop was in the shop. There is nothing wrong with 
> the 
> old Gateway and it works fine. I'm an owner/operator truck driver. 
> The 
> entire trucking industry revolves around computers and has for many 
> years. Putting this a different way, without a computer I would be 
> out 
> of business. I get my loads over the Internet. My logbook is a 
> computer 
> program. I scan and email paperwork into the office, and receive 
> paperwork the same way.
> 
> FreeBSD has been around longer then any of the Linux distributions, 
> although I have considered some of them. My brother has a MAC that 
> he 
> thinks is great. MacIntosh runs a version of FreeBSD.  Plus I 
> figured 
> that there was more support for FreeBSD then any other operating 
> system 
> outside of Windows. Also in very limited ways, it appears that 
> FreeBSD 
> is ahead of Linux in the development curve. Ways that keep older 
> equipment in use. (Simply buying new equipment every few months to 
> keep 
> up with Mr. Gates is for the birds)
> 
> Thanks for the "Welcome."
> 
> (I'll work on everyone's suggestions later in the week and see if I 
> can 
> figure things out. It appears that my xf86config file has a bug in 
> it.)
> Lloyd Hayes
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Since Giorgos crossed the line to linux :)
> >here is a site that has all of the man pages
> >at your fingertips. For someone new to *nix,
> >knowing what to ask is harder than asking.
> >
> >http://jamesthornton.com/linux/man/
> >
> >Welcome to FreeBSD. It is the best.
> >
> >Robert
> >


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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Matt Navarre]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2004-06-15 12:40, Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any
mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the
handbook. Where do I find these?

Others have given many good tips for learning "newbie" things, but one 
thing you might want to think about is buying a good tutorial level 
book, I've found "FreeBSD Unleashed" to be helpful and a very old cpoy 
of "The Complete FreeBSD" still comes in handy, I'd imagine a new 
edition would be even more handy.

Another good book is O'Reilly's "UNIX in a nutshell", It's of more use 
once you've got some conception of how this beast called UNIX actually 
works, since it's intended as a reference, but even after seven years of 
running various flavors of UNIX both at home and at work, I still find 
myself reaching for it at times.

As  a bit of a plug, "The Complete FreeBSD" is the book that got me up 
and running, Oh, so long ago. It's a damn fine tome and I highly 
recommend it. One of the best UNIX books on the market, IMHO.
Hi Lloyd,
Others have already mentioned the "Basics" section of the Handbook.
I just wanted to add two more references that might be handy to get
you started:
 1. Anderson, Annelise.  "For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX(TM)".
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/
 2. Gonzato, Guido.  "From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO".

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html
It might intrigue some and seem curious to others that I---a long time
FreeBSD user and advocate---would point to a Linux HOWTO.  The truth is
that most of the tips that apply for getting people acquainted with
Linux are also good advice for using *any* UNIX system.
As Giorgos says, any Linux tutorial is probably worthwile. Linux and 
FreeBSD are different, but at a user level the "flavor" of both is 
largely the same. A linux tutorial will at least use the same command 
names(mostly) as FreeBSD but the options might differ. Remember, the man 
command is your friend.

If you have the option you want to spend some time just playing before 
you try to do anything useful. Just try to do things, learn the 
environment, &c. Just by trying do get stuff done you'll learn an 
amazing amount in a very short time.
Welcome to FreeBSD then,
Seconded, enjoy the journey.
- Giorgos
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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since Giorgos crossed the line to linux :)
here is a site that has all of the man pages
at your fingertips. For someone new to *nix,
knowing what to ask is harder than asking.
http://jamesthornton.com/linux/man/
Welcome to FreeBSD. It is the best.
No need to get confused with the different options on Linux commands; 
FreeBSD.org has all the FreeBSD man pages online in a nice hyperlinked, 
searchable format:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[hoe-waa]

Since Giorgos crossed the line to linux :)
here is a site that has all of the man pages
at your fingertips. For someone new to *nix,
knowing what to ask is harder than asking.

http://jamesthornton.com/linux/man/

Welcome to FreeBSD. It is the best.

Robert

On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:10 am, Giorgos Keramidas broke it open 


> On 2004-06-15 12:40, Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't 
> any> mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes 
> in the
> > handbook. Where do I find these?
> 
> Hi Lloyd,
> 
> Others have already mentioned the "Basics" section of the Handbook.
> I just wanted to add two more references that might be handy to get
> you started:
> 
> 1. Anderson, Annelise.  "For People New to Both FreeBSD and 
> UNIX(TM)".http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
> 1/articles/new-users/
> 
> 2. Gonzato, Guido.  "From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO".
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-
> formats/html_single/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html
> 
> It might intrigue some and seem curious to others that I---a long time
> FreeBSD user and advocate---would point to a Linux HOWTO.  The 
> truth is
> that most of the tips that apply for getting people acquainted with
> Linux are also good advice for using *any* UNIX system.
> 
> Welcome to FreeBSD then,
> 
> - Giorgos
> 
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RE: FreeBSD Commands

[Michael Clark]

Seems like people have sent you enough references to keep you reading for
awhile.
If you are interested in walkthroughs for setting this up in FreeBSD like
sound, 
browser plugging, or java, I would recommend you check out
http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/ 
and http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 

They have articles on all sorts of topics.  The firewall and security ones
might
be useful for you as well.


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-Original Message-
From: Lloyd Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FreeBSD Commands


I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any 
mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the 
handbook. Where do I find these?

I just received instructions to find and copy my X-configure file to a 
different directory so that KDE would work. One problem. Under this file 
system, I have no idea how to change directories using line commands. I 
was sent the command for viewing the current directory, but I need the 
syntax for changing to different directories, and for moving and 
copying  files to different directories.

(If you did it every day, simply walking on Mars would be child's play.)

-- 

Lloyd Hayes

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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-06-15 12:40, Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any
> mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the
> handbook. Where do I find these?

Hi Lloyd,

Others have already mentioned the "Basics" section of the Handbook.
I just wanted to add two more references that might be handy to get
you started:

 1. Anderson, Annelise.  "For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX(TM)".
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/

 2. Gonzato, Guido.  "From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO".

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html

It might intrigue some and seem curious to others that I---a long time
FreeBSD user and advocate---would point to a Linux HOWTO.  The truth is
that most of the tips that apply for getting people acquainted with
Linux are also good advice for using *any* UNIX system.

Welcome to FreeBSD then,

- Giorgos

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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any
> mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the
> handbook. Where do I find these?

"FreeBSD First Steps"
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/index.html

"For People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix,"
http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/
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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Julian M. Mason]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:32:56PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> cd ~ -- change directory to your accounts home directory

I'm going to expand on this one a little, because it's helpful. To cd to
your home directory (your own little "corner of the file system", where
all your personal files go), run 'cd' (without the quotes...) with no
arguments.

The ~ character is expanded by the shell to mean "path to my home
directory". So, typing 'cd ~' would also take me to my home dir. Also,
'cd ~/music' would take me to the music directory in my home directory,
if I've got one. 

Recall that 'pwd' prints the current working directory:
An example:

# pwd
/usr/home/mac
# ls
Maildir public_html storage
# cd /usr/local
# pwd
/usr/local
# cd ~/storage
# pwd
/usr/home/mac/storage
# ls
video
# cd
# pwd
/usr/home/mac
# ls
Maildir public_html storage


(where '#' is my prompt)

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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:40:07PM -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any 
> mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the 
> handbook. Where do I find these?

Yes.  The Handbook does assume that you are familiar with the basics
of the Unix environment.  Let's see.  Crash course in how to survive
Unix -- the University of Ohio has a well regarded course available on
line:

http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.html

Other than that, all commands should have manual pages, which you can
display using the 'man' command. eg.

% man ls

To find out about the man command, read its man page:

% man man

Man pages are laid out according to a standard style -- eg. for
commands, first there's a very short and probably rather impenetrable
synopsis of how to use the command and various option arguments you
can give it.  Then there's a paragraph explaining what the command
does, followed by a detailed breakdown of all the different options.
Then there can be several different bits of stuff depending on the
nature of the command, culminating in a list of environment variables
used by the program (if any), a number of examples, references to the
man pages for related commands and a list of any known bugs in the
command.  Length varies from less than a page to getting on for book
length.

To try and find a command to do something, for example to copy a file,
use the '-k' option to man:

% man -k copy

That will print out a list of all of the man pages on the system that
mention the word 'copy' in their titles, amongst which you will see a
reference to:

cp(1)- copy files

Not that this is a quite limited technique: coming from a DOS
background you might reasonably expect there to be commands to delete
or rename a file.  Indeed there are, but named rm(1) (ie. ReMove) and
mv(1) (ie. MoVe) and you basically have to know that in order to find
the right command.

Now in that last paragraph I introduced a bit of unixiod jargon:
saying cp(1) is a reference to the man page for the cp command, which
is in section 1 of the manual.

You'll also note that the Unix environment does not go out of its way
to be helpful to complete beginners.  That's because you're only a
beginner at that sort of level for a couple of weeks, tops, and this
environment is designed for use day in, day out by people who know
what they're doing.  All those arcane looking two and three letter
commands (without vowels) really are easier to deal with when you are
typing fast.  Unix commands also tend to assume that you know what you
are doing and not ask you to confirm things -- mostly because that
means they can be used for running unattended and in scripts.  That
means if you tell your system to delete all the files in your home
directory, it will do so without question.

What are the absolute basic commands you have to know?  Something like
this:

ls(1)-- get a directory listing
ls -l-- get a long format directory listing

pwd(1)   -- show your present working directory
cd   -- change directory.  Note this is a shell builtin(1) rather
than a standalone command

cd ~ -- change directory to your accounts home directory

mv(1)-- rename files, move files into a different directory
cp(1)-- copy files
rm(1)-- delete files
rm -r-- delete a directory and all of its contents, recursively

date(1)  -- show time and date
time(1)  -- time how long a process takes to execute

whoami(1) -- for the morning after a particularly wild party
who(1)   -- who is logged into the system

man(1)   -- read the system manual

more(1)  -- page through a file
ee(1)-- easy editor
vi(1)-- difficult editor

login(1) -- log into the system
passwd(1) -- change your password
exit -- log out (
logout   -- log out 
 
> I just received instructions to find and copy my X-configure file to a 
> different directory so that KDE would work. One problem. Under this file 
> system, I have no idea how to change directories using line commands. I 
> was sent the command for viewing the current directory, but I need the 
> syntax for changing to different directories, and for moving and 
> copying  files to different directories.
> 
> (If you did it every day, simply walking on Mars would be child's play.)

Absolutely.  I can hardly remember what it was like being a complete
beginner.  Don't worry -- stick with it for few weeks: keep
practicing, and it will get a lot easier.  Really.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: FreeBSD Commands

[Julian M. Mason]

This is generic unix, so it goes something like this:

cd  takes you to a directory.

cp   copies a file from  to 
mv   does the same, but moves it.

I recommend

("UNIX Basics" in the handbook), and

in particular (tells you about the filesystem layout).

--Mac


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:40:07PM -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any 
> mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the 
> handbook. Where do I find these?
> 
> I just received instructions to find and copy my X-configure file to a 
> different directory so that KDE would work. One problem. Under this file 
> system, I have no idea how to change directories using line commands. I 
> was sent the command for viewing the current directory, but I need the 
> syntax for changing to different directories, and for moving and 
> copying  files to different directories.
> 
> (If you did it every day, simply walking on Mars would be child's play.)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Lloyd Hayes
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