From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 4 17:24:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24647 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24632 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA02089; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:24:20 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19981005102413.55925@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:24:13 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: First commands Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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