[Haifux] The 10th tip?

[Sorana Fraier]

true. It is less to type for the lazy ones.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Ohad Lutzky <ohad at lutzky.net> wrote:

> 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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