basic operations
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Dec 3 14:03:30 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:28 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:33, Phet Whore Meyer wrote:
> > To whom it may concern,
> >
> > Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one query
> > for now:
> > In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program Files',
> > in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called?
> >
> > I know that this question is fairly trivial, is there anywhere else i can go
> > to find out basic information such as this?
> >
> > I greatly appreciate the help.
>
> One good way to figure out what commands are available is to use the
> command apropos.
>
> apropos keyword
>
> Where keyword is something you are trying to do like:
>
> apropos filesystem
>
> apropos searches the whatis database for matches and lists short
> descriptions of system commands that match.
>
Uhhhh, Don't you mean that apropos searches the man pages to find
things that match?
[jeff at eagle ~]$ apropos /etc/passwd
pam_localuser (8) - require users to be listed in /etc/passwd
slapd-passwd (5) - /etc/passwd backend to slapd
Which indicates the man pages containing those references.
> You may need to create the whatis database by running
> /usr/sbin/makewhatis.
>
> You can then use the man command to get details on each of the commands
> listed.
>
> man ls
>
> man man
>
> Under linux many of the commands are in /usr/bin but you will find some
> packages install commands in other locations as well.
>
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