From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 13:34:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25500 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25493 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23043; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <36192D32.34B99F7@dal.net> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:33:54 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0929 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First commands References: <199810051735.KAA00651@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message