Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:35:48 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, sue@welearn.com.au Subject: Re: First commands Message-ID: <199810051735.KAA00651@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19981005102413.55925@welearn.com.au>
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I'd include "echo" as a "must know about". I'd elide "nethack" (as much as I enjoy the game, at least during this time of the month -- full moon improves one's luck). I also have never found a use for "ee", but then, I've been using "vi" (& other editors with a similar heritage) since '86. Still, for anyone who is likely to be working with any other flavors of UNIX, I would be *very* hard-pressed to recommend spending the time to learn "ee". "sed" is also something I find critical; also, I'd recommend something that might indicate to the reader that a (non-default) shell may be invoked just like any other program, and that docs for shells are also available via "man". Oh -- a couple more: ifconfig (as in "ifconfig -a") & netstat (as in "netstat -nr"). Those are critical for anyone with a machine that is on a network, I'd think. One I was surprised to see on the list is "locate" -- I don't think I'd ever heard of it; I'm fairly certain I've never used it. (Just checked a Solaris 2.5 system; no such command. Maybe "locate" is FreeBSD (or 4.4 BSD) -specific?) I think that'll do for the nonce, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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