mdg Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Does anybody know of a book or website that gives console commands in a question and answer format? To clarify, if I wanted to copy a file, I would look under "copy" and there I would find various commands to copy a file or directory or paragraph. I have "Linux in a Nutshell", but it doesn't help when I don't know the name of the command I need, or that the command even exists. What usually happens is I just default to the GUI, but I really want to learn command-line stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Not offhand. I'd say to try downloading an ebook and using the "find" command in your pdf reader/browser/editor, depending upon the format. There are some useful ones up on my site, and quite a few that I haven't added yet. Just click on the link at the bottom of my post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Look here: ftp://mandrakeusers.com/pub/Mandrake....o...ommand-Line.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 Maybe here: http://linuxcommand.org/ Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 You can also search your system with apropos, and then use man on commands that you're interested in. sh-2.05b$ apropos copy | grep files File::Copy (3) - Copy files or filehandles cp (1) - copy files and directories cpio (1) - copy files to and from archives install (1) - copy files and set attributes objcopy (1) - copy and translate object files I piped the output through grep, because there are lots of results for copy, and you were interested in files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 you can also try the doc book: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide though focused to bash, it has also a deep description of the most widely used 'command line' commands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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