<div dir="ltr">true. It is less to type for the lazy ones. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Ohad Lutzky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ohad@lutzky.net">ohad@lutzky.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">man -k is also known as "apropos" :)<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Sorana Fraier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sf10095@gmail.com" target="_blank">sf10095@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I would add 2 useful commands:<br><br>ls -at will show the files sorted by time. The newest will appear first.<br>
<br>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 <br>
<br>man -k directory will print all the commands related to directory that can be applied. <br><br>A partially output of the above command is:<br><br>mdel (1) - delete an MSDOS file mdeltree - recursively delete an MSDOS directory and its contents<br>
mdeltree (1) - recursively delete an MSDOS directory and its contents<br>mdir (1) - display an MSDOS directory<br>mdu (1) - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory<br>
mkdir (2) - create a directory<br>mkdir (3p) - make a directory<br>mkdirat (2) - create a directory relative to a directory file descriptor<br>mkdtemp (3) - create a unique temporary directory<br>
mkfifoat (3) - make a FIFO (named pipe) relative to a directory file descriptor<br>mkfontdir (1) - create an index of X font files in a directory<br>mkfontdir (1x) - create an index of X font files in a directory<br>
mklost+found (8) - create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux second extended file system<br>mknod (3p) - make a directory, a special file, or a regular file<br>rm (1p) - remove directory entries<br>
rmdir (2) - delete a directory<br>rmdir (3p) - remove a directory<br><br>It doesn't require root permissions. <br><br>Sorana<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Yossi Gil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yossi.gil@gmail.com" target="_blank">yossi.gil@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr">Friends, <br><br>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?<br>
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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?<br><br>Yossi<br>
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