Comments on: Friday Fun – Useful Linux Terminal Commands for New Users.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:51:36 +0000

@billg

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By: billg

billg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:24:39 +0000

Sudo this, Linux.

Microsoft OS rules!

By: blue

blue — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:01:29 +0000

@ Mackenzie “$cat /etc/issue” works on Fedora

By: Nihal singh

Nihal singh — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:41:16 +0000

future in linux is best os

By: Nihal singh

Nihal singh — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:38:16 +0000

useradd (name)

for add the new user

passwd (name).user nam and enter

than hit the passwd

By: Joshua Welch

Joshua Welch — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:56:25 +0000

You should put “ctrl C” will stop the ping, cause windoze users are used to standard 4.

By: KSiimson

KSiimson — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:34:15 +0000

To previous commenters: I’ve been told that apt-get and aptitute have the same functionality since Ubuntu ~6.04.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:26:41 +0000

Also, with Ubuntu 8.04 I understand the command should be “aptitude” in place of “apt-get”. I understand that aptitude removes unused dependencies when uninstalling an application, whereas apt-get does not. I did a quick google to confirm this and found a great blog post about the differences here: http://www.psychocats.net/ubun.....u/aptitude

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:22:23 +0000

@Travis – No worries. :)
Cheers! Thanks for the extra input and perspective.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:59:28 +0000

**edit above post**heh woops jumped the gun. i got here via stumble and didn’t realize this was an ubuntu site. heh apologies to the author for jumping the gun on the apt comment.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:55:23 +0000

Look, the title of this post is “Useful Linux Terminal Commands for New Users” how is using init or even halt more intuitive to the new user than shutdown and reboot respectively? Also, I wonder why the author assumes that all new users would be using the apt package manager (not every new user jumps to ubuntu). Also, a couple of no brainers for a new user would be man, whatis, and locate. Anyway, I’m done ranting. Glad to see the effort out there to help new folks but I think some of us go a little over the top in what we think is something a newbie should know. The learning curve is fairly steep ( though thankfully now not nearly as steep as it used to be) and it’s all about the baby steps :). Cheers

By: RZ

RZ — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:34:32 +0000

to reboot you have a few ways.
“sudo init 6″ or “sudo reboot”
if you are at a true terminal (not in X) just hit ctrl+alt+del

to halt, “sudo halt” is sufficient
or you can do “sudo init 0″
The init commands call their respective runtimes.
0 = halt, 6 = reboot, and i think 5 is gui (per most preconfigured distros, can be changed on a “from scratch” system)
I know you all prolly know this, and correct where wrong, but just putting it out there for the beginners.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:03:04 +0000

@Ghost|BOFH – Thanks for the input. :)
Question: Didn’t I read something via Digg a while back that pointed to a big post about the evils of Aptitude, and how they were recommending it not be installed? Or am I just mixing that up with something else?
Thanks… :)

By: Ghost|BOFH

Ghost|BOFH — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:08:59 +0000

Just a quick note: They are trying to ween people off “apt-get” and instead suggest using “aptitude” as it is generally considered more complete and better at picking up dependencies…or something like that.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:43:10 +0000

@guitarman_usa: Ah ha! :)
So…

cd dirA || mkdirA && cd dirA; mkdir dirB

means:

Change to dirA OR make dirA (if we’re unable to change it) AND (if dirA is successfully made), change to dirA then make dirB (because of the combined task). dirB will be made inside dirA.

I get it! Cool! :)

Thanks for the input. Simple as it is, this is very good to add to backup scripts (as well as a couple other things).

Thanks :)
Cheers!