[olug] Linux terms and commands

[Joseph Gulizia]

Thanks Dave.  Understood....I guess I would say for newbies or ops not
necessarily for developers or programmers.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 08:20 Dave Pfister <dave.pfister at gmail.com> wrote:

> I mean, "useful" is a pretty subjective term... a casual user looking for a
> cheap OS alternative is going to have very different choices here than say,
> a developer, or a network admin, or a systems admin.
> IMO, bash is #1 by a country mile since that's your core UI unless you're
> going to drag X into the mix.  FS manipulation/navigation stuff is close
> second (ls, cd, mv, rm, etc...) followed by file manipulation stuff
> (cat/less/more/tar/gzip/grep).  Third tier is likely self-service help
> (man/info).  Pretty much everything else would vary by use-case.
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 7:44 AM Joseph Gulizia <joseph.gulizia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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> > >
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