-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding > informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat > /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging > grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of > these really useful commands. > > Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here > that I could add? Thanks > > Anne > Where would you start? The command line is where it's at. It is where everything is.
There have been whole books written about the proc filesystem, learning Bash, books on common filters like sed, grep, awk etc.. There is so much that you can do, where would you start. I have used single command lines to download and parse an XML file, and generate a w3c compliant XHTML file and stick it on a webserver. On one line, without any external temp file storage or data files. (It is a long line, output is here) http://www.kevino.org/slashdot.html You find things out by looking at how the system is running, by looking at the parts of the operating system. Just listing where things(files) are kept would be daunting. Open a terminal window, or go to a virtual console, and at the prompt type a <tab> key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:50am-Intel_2011>> Display all 3401 possibilities? (y or n) That's 3400 commands, not combinations of commands, or options, etc.. - -- KevinO "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" - -- Lily Tomlin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XbEfWOfRC7Rnmv8RAu00AKCEvRny0nTu3WMCs+gmv1wRJWhJowCfTDzN UGXsVa2iSt76CmpGb1m7hH0= =86CV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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