Hello, For many of these commands, like "ls", you can do a "--help" option, to get usage instructions. Don't forget the ever-popular "man". If a command reported no errors, it succeeded. -Dave Octavian Rasnita writes: > Hi, thanks. Nice explanation. > I am not intimidate by the command lines. I am frightened by the idea of > breaking something. > Maybe I type rm fILE instead of rm File and I could delete another file. And > I don't know the undelete command. > The most used command by me is pwd, to be sure that I am in the right > directory, and ls, to see the files from there. > The other problem I have is that I don't remember very easy the parameters. > I usually remember the command name but I can't remember if I should use > the -L parameter or the -l parameter. > I've seen that for some commands, the same parameter make the same thing, > but for other commands that parameter make another thing. > If I remember well, it is the case of -R parameter, but I don't remember > exactly in what commands makes what. > In some commands, it means Recursive in the directory tree, but in other > commands, it means another thing. > > Another problem, and maybe here I can make something to improve, is that > after I give a command like sync, it doesn't tell me if the command was > successfully or not, and I don't know what to do. > I typed that command from another account than root, and it didn't tell me > anything. It didn't tell me if the command was successfully or not or if I > have the right to type that command from another account than root.
