A Command List of the Terminal Commands?

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A Command List of the Terminal Commands?

Postby equipment on Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:53 am

Is there a thorough command list of the terminal commands available? I am not much skilled with the terminal.
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Re: A Command List of the Terminal Commands?

Postby dagon on Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:16 am

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Re: A Command List of the Terminal Commands?

Postby RETNUH on Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:01 am

This Bash guide is rather old, but it should suffice.
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Re: A Command List of the Terminal Commands?

Postby Holiday on Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:49 pm

equipment wrote:Is there a thorough command list of the terminal commands available? I am not much skilled with the terminal.


If you really want to understand then read "The Art of Unix Programming" http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/.

The terminal is a shell. There are various shells but never mind that now.

Within the shell you call programs. There are many programs. You can install new ones so a 'complete list' is like asking for a complete list of the books in the world. It's vast and it's changing all the time.

But these programs, if they're responsible, follow a reliable pattern. You send input to the program and it returns a text stream that you can watch fly by or direct to a file or '|' (pipe) to another program that will accept that text stream as input and return a text output - that you can pipe to another program and so on.

So the approach is not 'what is available?' but 'what do I want to do?'

And then you google like crazy, post questions on here - or any linux forum.
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