Linux Commands

Linux Commands

Linux has a unique way of doing things in a black terminal with commands.

The moment one presses Enter, following a command, it executes the command briskly.

First command, I probably typed was ping in Unix.

The first response or information one may get is the command not found, if there is a Typo.

All commands are in simple letters, never begins with a Capital.

Let me list a few of them here for a beginner.

If I remember right;

xinit & in Unix terminal or startx (starting a graphical front end) killall (if stuck with a command and no response) and exit were the first few commands, I learned.

I did not have the fortune of using a Unix Box, but thanks to early Linux Live CDs, I began a long journey and every book published on Linux was purchased and read, not from cover to cover by the way.

I practiced line by line without a Guru (Book was my Guru).

Unix Made Easy by John Muster and The Joy of Linux by

Michael Hall and Brian Proffitt were the inductors, hard to find then and now in the bookstores.

I collected all the books written on Linux from Linux Bible to all the Redhat Books from Redhat 7 to 8 and later Fedora 6.

Later, I gave up with Fedora and the Linux commands to Graphic intensive Suse.

I gave up Suse when it turned commercial with service edition to boast.

I went to Singapore to buy a service edition but they never obliged.

That was the reason for giving it up.

Then exclusively used Mandrake and Mandriva till it wound up in France.

Thankfully Mageia has taken it forward.

Finally, I settled downed with Debian, Peppermint and Pinguy (Pin-or the Merit Guy). PClinux and FullMonty are worth their titles.

EOS (Endless OS) is a recent addition worthwhile mentioning, now available in Live Base DVD.

Knoppix is my gold standard and Puppy is my favorite.

Sorry Guys/Girls if I failed to mention all the other distributions I used, but strangely enough, I rarely used Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu.

I had some aversion to Ubuntu, a point I cannot justify or rectify. 

Most probably the lack of books but now there are journals in Linux and Ubuntu.

Coming back to commands,

cd

pwd

ps

ls

cat,

date,

who

grep

awk

sort

wc

echo

more

less were the ones that followed ping.

There are thousands of commands now one needs to know only a few in working life.