[Haifux] The 10th tip?

[Sorana Fraier]

I would add 2 useful commands:

ls -at will show the files sorted by time. The newest will appear first.

The second command that I highly recommend is for those who don't know which
command to apply. A highly educative learning tool. For instance

man -k directory will print all the commands related to directory that can
be applied.

A partially output of the above command is:

mdel                 (1)  - delete an MSDOS file mdeltree - recursively
delete an MSDOS directory and its contents
mdeltree             (1)  - recursively delete an MSDOS directory and its
contents
mdir                 (1)  - display an MSDOS directory
mdu                  (1)  - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS
directory
mkdir                (2)  - create a directory
mkdir                (3p)  - make a directory
mkdirat              (2)  - create a directory relative to a directory file
descriptor
mkdtemp              (3)  - create a unique temporary directory
mkfifoat             (3)  - make a FIFO (named pipe) relative to a directory
file descriptor
mkfontdir            (1)  - create an index of X font files in a directory
mkfontdir            (1x)  - create an index of X font files in a directory
mklost+found         (8)  - create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux
second extended file system
mknod                (3p)  - make a directory, a special file, or a regular
file
rm                   (1p)  - remove directory entries
rmdir                (2)  - delete a directory
rmdir                (3p)  - remove a directory

It doesn't require root permissions.

Sorana


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Yossi Gil <yossi.gil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I wrote a short "10 tips for  beginner Linux users" document (see the
> attached), but I am missing a 10th tip... So, if you had to add one more
> tip, which one would that be?
>
> Note that I could not add any tips which require root privileges...  Also
> note that out of the 9 I have, 7 are command line specific, 1 is general,
> and only 1 is GUI related. Any thoughts on a good GUI tip?
>
> Yossi
>
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