Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:33:54 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First commands Message-ID: <36192D32.34B99F7@dal.net> References: <199810051735.KAA00651@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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I'm in general agreement with your post, just a few comments.
David Wolfskill wrote:
> "sed" is also something I find critical
Me too, but the learning curve for anything beyond very simple
replacements is huge which is why I wouldn't include it in a list for
new users. I'd place this in the "intermediate" category, to be learned
after or concurrent with regular expressions.
> One I was surprised to see on the list is "locate" -- I don't think
> I'd ever heard of it; I'm fairly certain I've never used it. (Just
> checked a Solaris 2.5 system; no such command. Maybe "locate" is
> FreeBSD (or 4.4 BSD) -specific?)
Locate is your friend! It's extremely useful if you often have to hunt
for things on the disk (as new users often do). It's also very useful in
a situation where more than one person is administrating a machine and
they have... differing admin styles. *grumble grumble.. where did he
put that file THIS week? grumble* And yes, it's a BSD'ism, one that I
sorely miss on the solaris boxes that I do a lot of work on. :-/
Doug
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