See BLT and Beginners Man Pages Discussion.

"Worksheet" to develop some simple syntax examples for common Linux commands, possibly to be incorporated in the specific man pages, or in some new man pages named like beginners.1 and beginners.8.

Temporary work area in temp

Contents

"beginners.1" page

Some common Linux commands for newbies.

ls

cat

cp

mv

rm

cd

mkdir

rmdir

grep

find

chmod

df

gzip

bzip2

tar

• tar -xvf <tar file> Extract files from a tar file
• tar -zxvf <gzipped tar file> Gunzip and extract files from a gzipped tar file.
• tar -??? <tar file> <list of files> Tar the list of files into the tar file
• tar -???? <gzipped tar file> <list of files> Tar and gzip the list of files into a gzipped tar file

ps

kill

less

man

top

"beginners.8"

Some simple sysadm commands.

mount

umount

sync

shutdown

chown

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 29 Jan 2002
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