RE: [cobalt-users] just telnet in ? ...unix shell commands

["Dee Dreslough" <dee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a site that is dedicated to helping folks new to Linux/Unix get into
it:

http://www.linuxnewbie.org

here's their site for basic commands:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/commands/index.html

Also, I recommend O'Reilly's Essential Systems Administration as well as the
books they recommend at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/bookshelf/index.html
The Linux in a Nutshell is really useful too.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a site that just has all the manual pages for
various Unix commands... It would be nice that when someone talks about
nslookup, that a person could go to a website and see the manual page (in a
nice 'easy to scroll through' format, rather than 'man' on a linux box) and
learn about how the command works...

Anyone know of Man Pages online?

Or, does anyone know of a 'Rosetta Stone' for translating commands for Dos
to Unix... This would help folks too.

-Dee Dreslough (dee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)

> i have combed the web and cobalt newsgroups for a week
> now and still have no idea on how to edit any server
> file...

It's probably best to use Pico. It's the easiest editor I've found yet for
Linux...but I only have experience with Emacs, vi and pico.

To edit a file with pico, you type: pico <filename>

Pico has a very good onboard help system so you can find out how to save
files, search, etc.

> or for that matter, to even simply remove a
> directory...

rmdir (but be sure the directory is empty...) You can delete files in a
directory with rm <filename> or rm * to remove all files.