Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:24:13 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: First commands Message-ID: <19981005102413.55925@welearn.com.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Here we go, another survey...
Next month I'll be putting something together to help unix-newbies
deal with the horror of their first FreeBSD prompt :-)
To do this, I need to select the commands that a beginner needs to know
first. I could get suggestions from beginners' unix books, but I'd like
to know what commands *you* needed to know during the first day, and
the first few weeks. For example, ls might be used often, but you
desperately needed to know about df on that first day! Tell me that.
Have you been frustrated by the lack of understandable examples of how
commands are used? Some man pages give examples that are meaningless to
someone with no background (try 'man find' and look under EXAMPLES).
We need *simple* examples, like 'ls -la'. Maybe this has been done
before, but I haven't seen it.
OK, what are your picks for the most essential/useful commands for
a raw newbie? And what commands are screaming out for a simple example
of their use? Here's a starting list. What's missing?
cd
pwd
mkdir
ls
cp
mv
rm
more
exit
date
df
more
du
/stand/sysinstall
ee
man
locate
find
nethack
ps
kill
top
pkg_add
pkg_info
(Please don't quote the _whole_ message, just reply with suggestions)
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981005102413.55925>