From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 18:46:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6887737B41A for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:46:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp251.dialsprint.net ([63.178.90.141] helo=moo.holy.cow) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16obXw-0003wv-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:46:21 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 01BE250B98; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:48:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:48:31 -0500 From: parv@pair.com To: Happy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can be done in Command Line Interface? Message-ID: <20020323024831.GA91530@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Happy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax>, wrote Happy thusly... > > I am a new user of freebsd 4.0. I have installed the OS but can > only use the command line interface because of graphics card > incompatibility. But I decided to learn using the command line > interface anyway. that's the spirit! > Can the things which can be done in GUI be done in command line ? almost every thing could be done on command line except the obvious, say, graphical browser or graphics program like gimp or xv. > e.g, can we email, to write/read, try pine or mutt. to send, see postfix if sendmail doesn't suit or meet your needs. to retrieve, try fetchmail; others prefer getmail instead. > surf the net, see w3m. others have already mentioned other choices. > install new software, sure. portupgrade or pkg_* are command line based tools anyway. > browse our hard-disk in command line? system ls, midnight commander (mc), grep, find, etc. > Also,what are the editors vi, vim, emacs, xemacs, mg, jed, pico, nano. > and programming software which we can > open and use in command line interface ? bourne shell (sh), bourne again shell (bash), kornShell (ksh), perl, awk, sed. all the above commands/programs are already on your system, or can be installed from the ports collection. mind you that above is not an exhaustive list in any way. what you should do is install the ports tree, if not already installed. then read "pkg-descr" named files under various subdirectories of the "categories". whatever suits your fancy, install the particular piece of software. experiment. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message