[linux-elitists] Besides help what other command lines to the prompt might get any other available commands?...

[Don Saklad]

Besides help what other command lines to the prompt might get any other available commands?...


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[Rick Moen]

Post by Don Saklad
Besides help what other command lines to the prompt might get any
other available commands?...

cd /usr/bin
for i in *; do man $i; done

Come back in a week to report on your newly achieved state of enlightenment.

[Ruben Safir]

Post by Rick Moen

Post by Don Saklad
Besides help what other command lines to the prompt might get any
other available commands?...

cd /usr/bin
for i in *; do man $i; done
Come back in a week to report on your newly achieved state of enlightenment.

you forgot to sneer (and forgot sbin and /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin and man
-k and locate HOWTO)

[Rick Moen]

Post by Ruben Safir
you forgot to sneer (and forgot sbin and /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin and man
-k and locate HOWTO)

Oh, come now. I said it with lovingkindness.

[Tilghman Lesher]

Post by Rick Moen

Post by Ruben Safir
you forgot to sneer (and forgot sbin and /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin and man
-k and locate HOWTO)

Oh, come now. I said it with lovingkindness.

That's odd. There's no Like button on this post.

/me ducks

[Rick Moen]

Post by Rick Moen
for i in *; do man $i; done

Thank you Rick Moen !
What does it mean?...

It means:

1. I am plagued by the bone-dry sense of humour of your average
everyday Scandinavian, which nuance is often lost over the Internet.

2. I would recommend a good tutorial on Linux and the Bash shell. Mark
Sobell's _A Practical Guide to Linux_ is a popular starting point.

Also, please think twice in the future before departing from a public
discussion into private mail without explanation. Many people
participate in public mailing lists with the primary intent of advancing
public discussion. Thanks.

[Ruben Safir]

Post by Rick Moen

Post by Rick Moen
for i in *; do man $i; done

Thank you Rick Moen !
What does it mean?...

Pick up an old Linux Bible book for like 5 dollars. Those are awesome.
It is like the Remington Pharmacacuetical Sciences

Ruben

Post by Rick Moen
1. I am plagued by the bone-dry sense of humour of your average
everyday Scandinavian, which nuance is often lost over the Internet.
2. I would recommend a good tutorial on Linux and the Bash shell. Mark
Sobell's _A Practical Guide to Linux_ is a popular starting point.
Also, please think twice in the future before departing from a public
discussion into private mail without explanation. Many people
participate in public mailing lists with the primary intent of advancing
public discussion. Thanks.
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[Eric De Mund]

Don,

Rick Moen:
] 2. I would recommend a good tutorial on Linux and the Bash shell. Mark
] Sobell's _A Practical Guide to Linux_ is a popular starting point.

_The Linux Command Line_ by William Shotts is also quite reasonable,
at 537 pages for $0.00:

The Linux Command Line
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

free PDF
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxcommand/files/TLCL/13.07/TLCL-13.07.pdf/download

The non-computer-science folks I've pointed to this book seemed pretty
happy with it.

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Eric
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[Matthew Galgoci]

Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:49:59 -0400
Subject: [linux-elitists] Besides help what other command lines to the prompt
might get any other available commands?...
Besides help what other command lines to the prompt might get any other available commands?...

Thinking along the lines of a usable CLI in general:

On network gear tab and ? are used. tab is also a completion in some
contexts, so tab to show all the commands avaialble then you type a
command then tab again to get possible arguments to the command.

Changes in prompt are also useful to be able to tell if you are in a
particular command context.

Vyatta has done a respectable job of copying the Junos CLI. zebra/quagga
has done the same for a cisco router CLI. Those would be good references.