Linux Desk Reference

Scott Hawkins has been a Linux user since 1992. He is a developer for Glenayre, Inc., and resides in Braselton, GA.

1. Documentation.


apropos, info, locate, man, makewhatis, manpath, updatedb, whatis, whereis.

I. SYSTEM STRUCTURES.

2. Files.


chgrp, chmod, chown, cksum, cp, dd, file, install, ln lockfile, ls, lsattr, mv, pathchk, rm, stat, sum, symlinks, touch.

3. Process.


&, ^Z, bg, fg, fuser, jobs, kill, killall, nice, nohup, pidof, ps, pstree, renice, top.

4. Standard Input, Output and Error.


>, <, 2>, >>, |, tee, script, xargs.

5. Directories.


cd, mkdir, pwd, rmdir, symlinks.

6. Users.


chfn, chpasswd, finger, groupmod, grpck, id, passwd, pwck, su, useradd, userdel, usermod, users, who.

7. Paths.


basename, dirname, namei, pathchk.

8. The bash Shell.


Invoking bash, Startup Files, Aliases, Command History, Command Completion, Command Line Editing, Word Designators, Shell Variables, Shell Prompt, Shell Arithmetic, Looping Statements, Conditional Statements, Shell Functions, Builtins.

9. Terminal & Keyboard.


captoinfo, clear, dumpkeys, getkeycodes, getty, infocmp, loadkeys, login, setterm, stty, tic, tput, tset.

10. Disks.


badblocks, cfdisk, du, fdformat, fdisk, quota, setfdprm.

11. Filesystems.


debugfs, df, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, fsck, fsck.minix, fuser, lsattr, lsof, mke2fs, mkfs, mkfs.minix, mklost+found, mkswap, mount, rdev, swapoff, swapon, sync, tune2fs, umount.

12. Printers & Print Queues.


lpc, lpd, lpq, lpr, lprm, pr, tunelp.

13. Daemons.


fingerd, ftpd, gated, gdc, identd, imapd, inetd, klogd, lpd, mountd, named, pppd, rexecd, rlogind, rcmd, rshd, rwhod, syslogd, talkd, tcpd, telnetd, tftpd, yppasswdd.

14. Machine Information.


arch, hostname, hwclock, uname.

15. Kernel.


depmod, modprobe, insmod, kerneld, ksyms, lsmod, bdflush, rmmod.

II. MANIPULATING DATA & TEXT FILES.

16. Displaying Files.


cat, head, less, look, rev, tac, tail.

17. Comparing & Merging Files.


comm, cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff.

18. Data Files.


column, colrm, csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, merge, paste, sort, split, tr, unexpand, uniq.

19. Document Formatting.


colcrt, eqn, gs, grog, gxditview, tbl, tex, troff, xdvi.

20. The vi Editor.


Just Enough to Get By, Stopping and Starting vi, Position Within a File, Searching & Replacing, Adding & Deleting Text, Yanking & Putting, Shell Interaction.

21. Archiving & Compression.


compress, cpio, dump, gzexe, gzip, gunzip, restore, shar, uncompress, uuencode, uudecode, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, zmore, znew.

III. COMMON TASKS.

22. Startup & Shutdown.


dmesg, halt, reboot, poweroff, lilo, rdev, runlevel, shutdown, swapon, swapoff, sync, init, telinit.

23. X Window System.


XF86Setup, X, startx, xdm, xf86config, xinit, xmseconfig, xterm, xvidtune.

24. Scheduling.


at, atq, atrm, batch, crontab, sleep, usleep.

25. Finding Stuff.


egrep, find, finger, fgrep, grep, locate, updatedb, which.

26. Diagnostics & System Performance.


df, dmesg, free, ipcs, ps, pstree, runlevel, tload, top, vmstat, who.

27. Security.


ipfwadm, pgpe, pgpk, pgps, pgpv.

28. Miscellaneous.


cal, date, fortune, ispell, rpm, strfile.

IV. NETWORKING.

29. TCP/IP.


arp, bootpd, bootptab, bootpgw, bootptest, dip, hostname, gated, gdc, ifconfig, in.identd, netstat, nslookup, rmail, route, routed, rusers, tcpdchk, tcpdmatch, traceroute.

30. Networking Applications.


ftp, hostname, netstat, ping, rarp, rcp, rdate, rdist, rlogin, rsh,rusers, rwall, rwho, telnet, tftp.

31. NIS & NFS.


domainname, nisdomainname, ypdomainname, makedbm, ypbind, ypcat, yppasswd, ypinit, yppoll, yppush, ypserv, ypset, ypwhich, ypxfer.

32. DOS & Windows Connectivity.


mattrib, mbadblocks, mcd, mdel, mdeltree, mdir, mdu, mformat, mlabel, mmd, mrd, mmove, mtype, xcopy, nmbd, smbclient, smbd, smbmount, smbstatus, smbumount, testparm.

33. Mail & Other Communication.


biff, elm, fetchmail, formail, mail, makemap, mesg, mimencode, rmail, rwall, sendmail, talk, uuencode, wall, write.

Glossary.
Index.