On Wednesday 14 February 2001 08:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> keith dalpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > totally new in the old world i came from dos/widoze
> you would type cd/dir to change directories
> could some one please show me a type of directory change command
> i would be greatful
> Check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/commands/index.html
> for basic command structure. -Dale
>From a command shell, run this command
whatis `ls /sbin` >> commands.txt
(note that those are BACKTICK marks)
Do the same thing for /usr/sbin, /bin, /usr/local/bin,
/usrX11R6/bin, etc. This will output one-line descriptions of well
over 2500 commands. Eventually, type "less commands.txt" to read the
file. Then use either 'man' or 'info' to learn more about each
commands capability.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
