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Newbie Commandline 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.

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).

Search, Documentation and General Information Related Tools:

man
find
locate
updatedb
which
whereis
hier
man man
man bash
help
alias
less
more
du
df
free
top
lsof

Networking Information and Related Tools:

hostname
ping
route
traceroute
arp
ifup/down
ifconfig
iwconfig
iwlist
netstat

Files You Should Know Exist:

passwd
hosts
hosts.allow
hosts.deny
hostname
version
resolv.conf
groups
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.bash_aliases
fstab
modules.conf
dhclient.conf

Paths You Should Know Exist: Note: see man hier for general overview

/usr/share/doc
/usr/local/doc
/var/log
/etc
/etc/init.d
/etc/alternatives

Conveniences:

history
ssh-agent
keychains
screen

Basics:

cp
mv
rm
ls
cd
chmod
chown
cat

Essential Keystrokes:

?
*
~
.
./
|
n
<ctrl>r
!      Start  a  history substitution, except when followed by a blank,
!n
!-n
!!
!string
!?string/n
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grep rgrep egrep fgrep
xargs
su 
sudo
package manager commands just names not all the options better kept in a different nonessential ref