From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 4 20:30:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18710 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rdc.cl (mailnet.rdc.cl [200.27.2.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18703 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gollum@rdc.cl) Received: from wingate (dialusr-97.rdc.cl [200.27.4.107] (may be forged)) by rdc.cl (8.8.8/8.8.5-obm-seg) with SMTP id AAA25769 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 00:30:25 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981005032723.007a0bf0@rdc.cl> X-Sender: gollum@rdc.cl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:27:23 -0400 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Anders Subject: Re: First Commands In-Reply-To: <19981005124812.61558@welearn.com.au> References: <3.0.5.32.19981005011120.0079e580@rdc.cl> <3.0.5.32.19981005011120.0079e580@rdc.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:48 PM 10/5/98 +1000, you wrote: >On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:11:20AM -0400, Anders wrote: >> >> Haha, I've been using FreeBSD for a month now and I still havent used all >> of those commands :-). > >Great! You're exactly the kind of person who has a clear view. Which >commands do you use most? Which did you find most difficult to learn? >Is there some command you would like to use but it's hard to understand? > Well I really do not know very much as of yet (read top :-), but like somebody else said, 'mount' would be a good one to add, my first question was "how the f%*k do I read a floppy disk!!?"...also, if people are coming from windows, I suppose it would be nice to know how to be able to mount another partition, which took me a good 1/2 hour to 'decrypt' from the man page :) Other than that, the list is more than I would use in the first day..also the aliases of 'ls' that come set up automatically, that display file info, etc, 'll' and 'lf' (i think that's it) were real usefull as well. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to get the size of a file before I figured this out. And while you are at it, for a person who just has installed FreeBSD, how about 'shutdown' or 'restart'?? It would not be too much of a good thing to be forced to manually restart the computer and get scary looking messages about root not being unmounted on startup... :-) --Just my input. By the way, what does 'nethack' do?. Sounds familiar :-) Perhaps I should know what this command does, if they are important enough to be included in a 'newbie' to-know list .. =P To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message