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.
