Linux Commands

[RabbieBurns]

Just found this page. Some stuff I didnt know. Someone else might find it useful someday

 

Linux tips every geek should know | TuxRadar

[danIT]

One of my fav's Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the web

 

Notice to the novice, seems that some of the commands are a little dangerous but the author is trying to cleaup and keep an eye out.

 

All in all a nice little site, and script.

[dhicks]

See also the XKCD store:

 

http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#LinuxCheatShirt

 

--

David Hicks

[Batman]

I always think it's funny that the linux command for delete is "RM". I chuckle every time I use it...

 

I tried typing "RM" into the RM website once but nothing happened... it's still there.

[powdarrmonkey]

I always think it's funny that the linux command for delete is "RM". I chuckle every time I use it...

 

rm like... remove? I don't get it.

[kmount]

It was a quip about RM (Research Machines) and rm the linux command for remove implying the latter should remove the former.

 

I suppose in the same breath it's the playing of a windows installation cd backwards plays satanic ritual music but playing it forward installs windows....

 

I'll get my coat.

[mac_shinobi]

Just found this page. Some stuff I didnt know. Someone else might find it useful someday

 

Linux tips every geek should know | TuxRadar

 

Anything like that for OS X Leopards terminal ?

 

I know there are man pages - maybe a link to apples man pages on the web instead of using the man pages in terminal.

[RabbieBurns]

Id imagine theyd be the same would they not?

[tmcd35]

OS X uses the same bash shell as most linux distro's. In fact I think the majority of *nix's out there default to bash these days.

 

Heres a list of bash commands that'll work on all these Unices...

 

bash commands - Linux MAN Pages

 

beyond that it depends what extra programs have bin installed into the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin or /usr/sbin directories as to what will work. Never really been bothered to check it out but I'd have thought 99% of the more comon/most important commands/programs you'll find on a Linux terminal session will work in an OS X terminal session. If not there is alway the Fink project so you can install whatever you need that is missing.

[Geoff]

here's a PDF Printable one for your nearest wall/noticeboard.

 

http://fosswire.com/post/2007/08/unixlinux-command-cheat-sheet/

[Batman]

It was a quip about RM (Research Machines) and rm the linux command for remove implying the latter should remove the former.

 

Damn right, I also heard that typing Google into Google breaks the internet...

[powdarrmonkey]

here's a PDF Printable one for your nearest wall/noticeboard.

 

FOSSwire: Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet

 

Nah, I want XKCD's cheat t-shirt.

 

(I'd have the regular expression reference skirt, too, but it wouldn't suit me )

[unixman]

Rosetta Stone for Unix covers *almost* every flavour of Unix/Linux.

[srochford]

It was a quip about RM (Research Machines) and rm the linux command for remove implying the latter should remove the former.

 

 

I'll get my coat.

 

The problem is that Unix is case sensitive; you needed to type "rm" on the RM web site :-)

[Batman]

The problem is that Unix is case sensitive; you needed to type "rm" on the RM web site :-)

 

Makes sense... although I just tried it and it still doesn't work.

 

Shall I log a call with them?

[soapyfish]

surely you want rm -r to be sure its gone

[somabc]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png

[kmount]

surely you want rm -r to be sure its gone

 

For recursive yes. (ie, into subdirs).

 

To be really 'sure' you'd run it with -rf (recursive and force) as a superuser.

[Batman]

I think I upset RM this morning... I logged a call on their support website and said this:

 

"We wanted to use some of the RM management tools on one of our Linux based servers as it happens to be in a good location in the school for resetting passwords etc. and would mean we wouldn't have to kick a student off a workstation to get into the management console.

 

After a brief telephone discussion on Monday morning I was told by an RM Engineer that I could simply use the "rm" command to do this. He told me to, as super user, type in "rm -R /boot /etc /var /home" and then reboot the machine so it picks up the updates, and not to worry about any error messages that come up.

 

I couldn't do it at the time because I was in a different room but I tried it first thing this morning and it didn't work. Worse still, it won't even boot now and this is our email server. What have you done to my server?!!"

 

I figured someone at RM would pick it up and I'd get a witty reply, but what I actually got was a phone call... they wanted to know which engineer I spoke to and had not considered for one moment that it might be a joke, so I had to tell them it was April Fool's Day.

 

I was briefly chastised by the RM representative who clearly couldn't see the funny side and informed me that they are very busy due to conficker outbreaks. I don't think she meant on their own network. Fair enough I suppose, bit of a shame though... it was meant to be funny not annoying.

[mikeglover]

I think I upset RM this morning... I logged a call on their support website and said this:

 

"We wanted to use some of the RM management tools on one of our Linux based servers as it happens to be in a good location in the school for resetting passwords etc. and would mean we wouldn't have to kick a student off a workstation to get into the management console.

 

After a brief telephone discussion on Monday morning I was told by an RM Engineer that I could simply use the "rm" command to do this. He told me to, as super user, type in "rm -R /boot /etc /var /home" and then reboot the machine so it picks up the updates, and not to worry about any error messages that come up.

 

I couldn't do it at the time because I was in a different room but I tried it first thing this morning and it didn't work. Worse still, it won't even boot now and this is our email server. What have you done to my server?!!"

 

I figured someone at RM would pick it up and I'd get a witty reply, but what I actually got was a phone call... they wanted to know which engineer I spoke to and had not considered for one moment that it might be a joke, so I had to tell them it was April Fool's Day.

 

I was briefly chastised by the RM representative who clearly couldn't see the funny side and informed me that they are very busy due to conficker outbreaks. I don't think she meant on their own network. Fair enough I suppose, bit of a shame though... it was meant to be funny not annoying.

 

lol Nice one! Batman