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Elephant_hog
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 Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Is there a commands List? |
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Is there somewhere where I can find a list of commands for the live cd's
The help isn't very helpfull for a beginner...
I have been learning what some of them do from the handbook
but I don't know what they all do...
For example
tar??
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SerfurJ
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| just type tab twice for a list of commands, then, for each command type man command. e.g. "man tar" |
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psychomunky
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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check in the /bin and /usr/bin directories.....most of the "commands" will be there.
From there most command support one of the following for help:
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<command> --help
<command> -h
<command> -help
<command> -?
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As well the following will bring up the man page (if there is one) for a particular "command":
For info on how to use man:
For all of the "builtin" commands (those that have no executable in /usr/bin or /bin pull up the man pages on you shell (bash by default on the liveCD)):
If you are trying to install, please see the gentoo handbook
Also, I am not sure if the liveCD has it out not, but there might be more information for a particular command with the "info" command:
A really useful one to look at first is this:
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hw-tph
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, I don't think the man pages or info pages are included on the official livecd's. Just so you don't go looking for something that's not there. 
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taurus
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Go get yourself a copy of Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly, 4th edition... 
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Elephant_hog
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: Thank you |
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That Helps a lot...
Also when I do the helps
e.g.
It brings up a lot of stuff and it scrolls down so fast that I cant see it all and pushing pause doesn't work.
Is there something so slow it down or to scroll back up.
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eerok
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Elephant_hog
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Thank you all this helped very much... You are correct the man and info commands are not included in the live CD's... the less command worked well and will solve a lot of my problems. Thank you agian
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