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The survival guide!


The survival guide!

By ghostghost | 8848 Reads |
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There are masses of commands ofcourse, but only 10 I find I use everyday so I made a basic survival guide :)

So here they are!

The 10 command(ment)s:

1.cd <directory> Change directory to <directory> Note: ../ is to go back a directory.

  1. chmod a+x <file> Change permission of file to all + excecute.

  2. ls List the stuff in this directory.

  3. rm <file> Delete <file>. Note: You may need command 2.

  4. top shows top processes, use kill -9 [PID] to kill process in top if oyu type k it writes kill

  5. vi <file> Edit file in vi text editor Note: Type ":qa!" without the quotes and press enter to quit WITHOUT saving. EDIT: nano is better :) CAT to just read a file.

  6. ./<file> Excecute <file>.

  7. mv <file> <newfilename> Rename <file> to <newfilename>. Note: If the new file name has a directory in it as in "../Desktop/file.txt" will move the file back one directory into desktop and name it file.txt.

  8. su Become root. Note: sudo <command> is a command to do a function as root. (Thanks Haykuro.)

  9. shutdown now Shutdown the computerā€¦ NOW!

Also, because I often do not know what linux versions and stuffs I am using means I resort to downloading the source code then compiling and intalling it myself. Linux has two built in compilers.

[11.] cc <file> Compile c source code. Note: gcc <file> is another compiler.

INSTALL:- tar zxvf file.tar.gz & cd programname&./configure & make &make install &make clean

NB:tar jxvf for tar.bz2

This list is no-where near a full one, just a few commands you might be stuck for on your firs time using linux. And also, if I forget one I know where to look now.

Wolf.

Comments
Nubzzz's avatar
Nubzzz 18 years ago

great article

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ghost 18 years ago

<b>Uhu agreeā€¦</b>

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ghost 18 years ago

Thanx for those :D Helped a lot with basic 6 ^_^

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ghost 18 years ago

in needed it for that,am i supposed to put the <file> in it?

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ghost 17 years ago

like ./configure excecute sthe configure

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ghost 17 years ago

Great for people that are new to linux such as myself. :)

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ghost 17 years ago

good if u just recently downloaded a linux system, if u haven't i suggest u do

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ghost 17 years ago

good if u just recently downloaded a linux system, if u haven't i suggest u do