From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 11:04:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23622 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fire.dreams.eu.org (fire.dreams.eu.org [194.89.15.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA22957 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vipe@fire.dreams.eu.org) Received: (qmail 8587 invoked by uid 502); 5 Oct 1998 18:01:43 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:01:43 +0300 (EET DST) From: Viljo Hakala X-Sender: vipe@fire.dreams.eu.org To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First commands In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19990204081205.0069e524@we.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [snip] > > Woah, there's alot of "experience required" commands up there, but at least > their good to know. One that you may have forgotten is 'tail -f' which is > a great tool for looking at /var/log/messages. But you also have a pretty > good list there. I've used most of those but not all of them. > Of course some had to be forgotten, so that someone could fill 'em up, right? =) Not really. Tail is a must tool eg. for a file checking. Tail -n is kinda usefull too =) hmm.. it's hard to remember the time I was a plain newbie playing around...(still am playing around though :)) But so far I would say, that these are the basic commands to get a long a bit longer with any unix system Greetings from the cold Finland, vh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message