From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 15 17:15:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD51D37B406 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from njam.myip.org (bkg8100by4lk.bc.hsia.telus.net [142.173.16.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D7D43E65 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from localhost (viktorlazlo@localhost) by njam.dhs.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6BJmoY47415; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) X-Authentication-Warning: njam.dhs.org: viktorlazlo owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@njam.dhs.org To: Libby Charles-CCL044 Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: hi In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020711124608.A7479-100000@njam.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Libby Charles-CCL044 wrote: > This is the hardest part of being a new person in UNIX. Knowing the > command I need to use. Mark, thanks for giving the reference to the man > page. It answered a question, and sent them to the place in the > documentation where I could find out the details. I have struggled with > may of the responses here because they would slam the new guy, but would > never refer them to a specific piece of documentation. This is the way > we need to help the new guys. I may be flamed for this but as a > teacher, this is the best way to help the student learn. Also, the > wonderful world of UNIX can be so complex it overwhelms someone > switching to UNIX form M$. Thanks again Mark. The quickest way of tracking down the right command is "apropos whatever", if it gives you too many references use a different keyword or filter the output: apropos remove apropos remove | grep user Cheers, Viktor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message