> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Eric Solomon > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 6:24 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation/pointers please - Need > to brush up onCentOS/Linux command line tools > > Two books I turn to mostly: > > UNIX System Administration handbook 3rd edition by Evi Nemeth > et al. - a > good general coverage, which breaks down the differences between how > Redhat, Solaris, HP-UX, and FreeBSD handle things. > > O'reilly Unix in a Nutshell (3rd edition) - a little Solaris-centric, > but good for reviewing commands in paper form, and a handy little > resource for when I forget sed and awk syntax. Actually the person who suggested man man was probably the best suggestion. Now some man pages are weak, they use to be stronger on BSD I remember. Check out 'apropos' and 'makewhatis' (which generates the indexes for apropos out of the man pages). But some basic commands to have in your arsenal: ls,cd,pwd,pushd,popd -> for getting around the file system sh/bash -> a must to have in your arsenal, no need to learn all the nitty gritty of scripting it, but job history, and command-line completion will make your life easier, especially you should learn to pipe '|' output of one command into the input of another, learning '<' and '>' to redirect input and output to/from text files will be useful too. cat,tail,head -> for listing/concatenating, looking at the end of, and looking at the beginning of a text file more,less -> for paging through streams of text grep,sed,awk -> for getting what you are looking for out of a stream of text. ps -> for seeing what is running and by who vi -> for editing files, it's not a WYSIWYG editor, but it's easier than 'ed', which is really just an interactive version of 'sed', there is a lot under the hood of 'vi' which makes it my config file editor of choice If you can master those commands you will be in good shape. -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.