[Haifux] The 10th tip?

[Ohad Lutzky]

man -k is also known as "apropos" :)

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Sorana Fraier <sf10095 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Ohad Lutzky
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