> > the basic Unix commands ...: bash cat cd cp > > csh dd df echo egrep emacs export find grep > > head id info less ls man mount pwd rm sed sort > > strings sudo tail tar tr uname vi which > > ... > > By now I see I need to add: > > file more set setenv tee what > > What else? > > From: Seth Arnold <sarnold () wirex ! com> ... > > echo /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/* > > :) I think by your ":)" you already know the `wc` of this is often large e.g. $ ls `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/* /g'` 3410 3402 31731 knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ $ I mean to ask, can we help sort this list of possible verbs from most to least commonly interesting, for Unix newbies, and for Linux kernel newbies. I know people before I have done this ... seemingly too many. I don't know how to find who has done this particularly well. I imagine I have myself done this particularly badly. I can see that beyond the first nn verbs worth learning we also have the first nn paths worth learning, the first nn shell variables worth learning, etc. > (honestly, reading every bloody manpage on my > systems for many years is how I learned ... Choices. I behaved that way before the web, because information reached me slowly. Still now I'd like to read every manpage. But I'd like to read every webpage too. I'm out of bandwidth: I have only twenty-four hours each day. Which are the first ten manpages I should read? The first hundred? The first thousand? Pat LaVarre __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
