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| - | ''Under Construction!'' (recategorise, review, augment, and add descriptions after more sleep)
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| - | ==Newbie Command line Essentials==
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| - | If you don't know your commandline very well at least know the tools that you have at your disposal to find the information and operate most efficiently. This section will contain only the entries that will enable you to maximize your productivity at the command line.
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| - | Search and documentation tools are some of the most important tools you can learn on your box heres a brief list of a few of the most popular, all of which can be accessed through your terminal (xterm, rxvt, etc...) or console (<ctrl><alt>F1...F6).
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| - | ''' Search, Documentation and General Information Essential Tools:'''
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| - | man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals (usage: man <manual page>)
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| - | find - search the manual page names and descriptions (usage: find <path> -name <pattern>)
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| - | locate - Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate (usage:)
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| - | updatedb - update the slocate database
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| - | which - locate a command
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| - | whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
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| - | hier - Description of the file system hierarchy
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| - | apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions
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| - | history -
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| - | <ctrl>r
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| - | *
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| - | n
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| - | less
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| - | '''Networking Information and Related Essential Tools:'''
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| - | ifconfig - configure a network interface
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| - | route - show / manipulate the IP routing table
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| - | iwconfig - configure a wireless network interface
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| - | iwlist - Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless interface
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| - | ifup - bring a network interface up
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| - | ifdown - take a network interface down
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| - | ==Additional Useful Commands==
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| - | '''Search, Documentation and General Information Related Tools:'''
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| - | bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
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| - | alias
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| - | less
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| - | more
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| - | du
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| - | df
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| - | free
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| - | top
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| - | lsof
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| - | help Display helpful information about the builtin commands
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| - | '''Networking Information and Related Tools:'''
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| - | hostname
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| - | ping
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| - | route
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| - | traceroute
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| - | arp
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| - | ifup/down
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| - | ifconfig
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| - | iwconfig
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| - | iwlist
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| - | netstat
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| - | '''Files You Should Know Exist:'''
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| - | passwd
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| - | hosts
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| - | hosts.allow
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| - | hosts.deny
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| - | hostname
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| - | version
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| - | resolv.conf
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| - | groups
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| - | .bash_profile
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| - | .bashrc
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| - | .bash_aliases
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| - | fstab
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| - | modules.conf
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| - | dhclient.conf
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| - | '''Paths You Should Know Exist:'''
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| - | Note: see man hier for general overview
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| - | /usr/share/doc
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| - | /usr/local/doc
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| - | /var/log
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| - | /etc
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| - | /etc/init.d
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| - | /etc/alternatives
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| - | '''Conveniences:'''
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| - | history
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| - | ssh-agent
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| - | keychains
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| - | screen
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| - | '''Basics:'''
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| - | cp
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| - | mv
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| - | rm
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| - | ls
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| - | cd
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| - | chmod
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| - | chown
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| - | cat
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| - | '''Essential Keystrokes:'''
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| - | ;
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| - | ?
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| - | *
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| - | ~
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| - | .
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| - | ./
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| - | n
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| - | <ctrl>r
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| - | ! Start a history substitution, except when followed by a blank,
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| - | !n
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| - | !-n
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| - | !!
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| - | !string
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| - | !?string/n
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| - | less v
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| - | addme
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| - | grep rgrep egrep fgrep
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| - | xargs
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| - | su
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| - | sudo
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| - | package manager commands just names not all the options better kept in a different nonessential ref
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