Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 04:32:09 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Corey Snow <corey@snowpoint.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Command Summary? Message-ID: <3D016CA9.1020902@mukappabeta.de> References: <3D010445.19429.AFCF05@localhost> <3D016890.7000501@owt.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote: > Do a "man builtin" and you can see the base commands. You have to > remember that every shell is slightly different. You can do thinks > like "man sh", "man csh", and etc. > > As far as a browseable is concerned, you can look at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=builtin&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-stable&format=html > > > That will get you started with the man pages. A good idea is always to get a Unix introductory book and read it. Without such an introductory text, he'll be rather be left hanging in thin air. For starters and a rather superficial overview, O'Reilly books are always good. Then, he should be looking what hangs around in /bin and /usr/bin, and doing a man filename on what one sees there is also very enlightening. That has always worked for me. I remember even in DOS, I looked what programs were available and then looked them up in the handbook (at the time when printed manuals still came with software) and tried to memorize them. But without a good introductory text, Unix is quite inaccessible to the beginner. If he knows DOS or VMS a similar command-line oriented system (not everyone does anymore these days), there are "migration guides" available on the web, i.e., basically a table where the commands one is familier with are listed, with the Unix work-alikes with explanations in another row. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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