- Add a section Logout and poweroff and change login/logout by open/close session - Add ref. to other common shells dash(1), ksh(1) - Add a ref. to stdout(3) - Separate cp and mv descriptions - Add examples of special cases of cd - Add su(1) and shutdown(8) ref. for section Logout and poweroff - Move Control-D to section Logout and poweroff - Fix some little format errors Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> --- man1/intro.1 | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/man1/intro.1 b/man1/intro.1 index e9daccf..4b95871 100644 --- a/man1/intro.1 +++ b/man1/intro.1 @@ -60,12 +60,10 @@ That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are. Below a bare minimum, to get started. .SS Login -In order to start working, you probably first have to login, -that is, give your username and password. -See also -.BR login (1). +In order to start working, you probably first have to open a session by +giving, your username and password. The program -.I login +.BR login (1) now starts a .I shell (command interpreter) for you. @@ -73,6 +71,19 @@ In case of a graphical login, you get a screen with menus or icons and a mouse click will start a shell in a window. See also .BR xterm (1). +.SS Logout and poweroff +When you work is finished, +you can press Control-D to close the current session. +This does not turn off the machine. +Only superusers have access to this command. +If you are the single user you can also not log off +and becoming a superuser by typing the command +.BR su (1). +Also you must type yours password. +Finally enter the command "shutdown -P +1", +which will turn off the computer after one minute. +See +.BR shutdown (8). .SS The shell One types commands to the .IR shell , @@ -85,12 +96,14 @@ The standard one is called See also .BR ash (1), .BR bash (1), +.BR chsh (1), .BR csh (1), -.BR zsh (1), -.BR chsh (1). +.BR dash (1), +.BR ksh (1), +.BR zsh (1). +.LP +A session might go like: .LP -A session might go like - .RS .nf .RB "knuth login: " aeb @@ -134,7 +147,7 @@ maja 0501\-1136285 $ .fi .RE -and here typing Control-D ended the session. +.LP The .B $ here was the command prompt\(emit is the shell's way of indicating @@ -171,15 +184,19 @@ The command .I cat will show the contents of a file. (The name is from "concatenate and print": all files given as -parameters are concatenated and sent to "standard output", here +parameters are concatenated and sent to "standard output" +(see +.BR stdout (3)), +here the terminal screen.) .LP The command .I cp (from "copy") will copy a file. -On the other hand, the command +.LP +The command .I mv -(from "move") only renames it. +(from "move"), on the other hand, only renames it. .LP The command .I diff @@ -223,7 +240,14 @@ prints the current directory. The command .I cd changes the current directory. -Try "cd /" and "pwd" and "cd" and "pwd". +.LP +Try alternatively +.I cd +and +.I pwd +commands and explore +.I cd +usage: "cd", "cd .", "cd ..", "cd /" and "cd ~". .SS Directories The command .I mkdir @@ -315,11 +339,16 @@ and use a browser if you find HTML files there. .BR bash (1), .BR chsh (1), .BR csh (1), +.BR dash (1), +.BR ksh (1), .BR locate (1), .BR login (1), .BR man (1), +.BR su (1), .BR xterm (1), .BR zsh(1), .BR wait (2), +.BR stdout (3), .BR man-pages (7), -.BR standards (7) +.BR standards (7), +.BR shutdown (8) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
