Phil Buchman wrote:
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> Does anyone know a website where a complete list of Terminal commands
> (and full details for each command) for Gibbon 7.1 can be found?
Hey Phil, good to see you again, and welcome to Ubuntu! I think I've got
just the thing(s) for you. Try typing this in a terminal window:
man -k . > ~/Desktop/manfiles.txt
This will give you a text file named manfiles.txt (you can give it a
different name if you like) on your desktop that contains a list of
every man page on your computer. The commands will be on the left and a
short description of each will be on the right. A small snippet from
the one I just now created:
----------
apt-key (8) - APT key management utility
apt-secure (8) - Archive authentication support for APT
apt-sortpkgs (1) - Utility to sort package index files
apt.conf (5) - Configuration file for APT
apt_preferences (5) - Preference control file for APT
aptitude (8) - high-level interface to the package manager
AptPkg (3pm) - interface to libapt-pkg
AptPkg::Cache (3pm) - APT package cache interface
AptPkg::Config (3pm) - APT configuration interface
----------
You can type:
man command
substituting the base name (without the information in brackets) of
any of the commands on the list to get more detailed information.
To give you an idea of the size of this list, I opened it in OpenOffice
and mine is 146 pages. That should be enough to keep you busy for
almost a lifetime! Something like this might be a little overwhelming,
though. Also, as you install and/or remove additional software, the
list will change.
You might want to start with a smaller list of many of the more commonly
used commands. There's a nice one here that I printed out when I first
began with Kubuntu, and still use from time to time. This one prints
out in four pages at 12 point font:
http://www.ss64.com/bash/
A nice feature of Kubuntu is the KDE Help Center, which is accessed by
clicking on the little lifesaver icon in the main menu that's labeled
"Help." This is an often overlooked treasure trove of information which
happens to contain the large list I described above, nicely formatted
for your browser. In the KDE Help Center, that list is under UNIX
manual pages --> (1) User Commands. I'm not sure if you have something
similar in Ubuntu, but you probably do. Maybe someone else in here can
jump in and give the Ubuntu equivalent. (:
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Little Girl
There is no spoon.