[olug] Linux terms and commands

Joseph Gulizia joseph.gulizia at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 07:41:41 CDT 2022


Thank you for responding.  Due to a physical constraint I need to limit the
number of terms to 48 terms.  I am hopeful others will give their input as
well.

Joe

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 00:36 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> You should know most of the listed commands. Here are a few I consider
> of minor importance:
>
> telnet: Used only for socket troubleshooting.
>
> nano: A relatively lousy editor. Vim, Emacs and VSCode are all better.
>       IMHO.
>
> paste: Too complicated. Better done with AWK or Python.
>
> The rest are very useful in numerous circumstances. And you forgot dd
> and its more intelligent cousin, ddrescue.
>
> SteveT
>
>
>
> Joseph Gulizia said on Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:51:59 -0500
>
> >Informal Poll:
> >
> >Which of these terms would you consider most important to know (1),
> >somewhat important to know (2) and least important to know (3).  I'm
> >trying to limit these to a list of 48.  Are there other terms that
> >should be a (1) or a (2)....what would they replace?  I'd like to have
> >all your feedback by Thursday March 24th if possible.  Thanks,
> >Joe Gulizia
> >
> >/
> >/bin
> >/boot
> >/dev
> >/etc
> >/home
> >/lib
> >/media
> >/mnt
> >/proc
> >/opt
> >/sbin
> >/tmp
> >/usr
> >/var
> >apropos
> >awk
> >bash
> >bunzip
> >cal
> >cat
> >cd
> >chgrp
> >chmod
> >chown
> >clear
> >cp
> >cut
> >date
> >df
> >du
> >echo
> >emacs
> >find
> >free
> >fsck
> >grep
> >gunzip
> >gzip
> >head
> >hostname
> >id
> >ifconfig
> >info
> >init
> >kill
> >less
> >ln
> >locate
> >ls
> >man
> >mkdir
> >more
> >mount
> >mv
> >nano
> >netstat
> >nslookup
> >paste
> >ping
> >ps
> >pwd
> >reboot
> >rm
> >rmdir
> >root
> >sed
> >shutdown
> >sort
> >ssh
> >su
> >sudo
> >swap
> >tac
> >tail
> >tar
> >tee
> >telnet
> >top
> >touch
> >traceroute
> >uniq
> >unmount
> >uptime
> >vim
> >wc
> >who
> >whoami
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