July 2005
Beginner
720 pages
18h 15m
English
Content preview from SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One
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Q&A
| Q1: | You mentioned earlier that there were “literally thousands of commands” in Linux. Where can I learn about them all? |
| A1: | Because there are so many commands, so many different varieties of Linux operating systems, and because you can always customize your Linux installation, there is no “official” list of all of the thousands of Linux commands you might encounter in Linux.
Several books do a good job of listing many of them, however. One of the very best is Linux in a Nutshell, little more than a concise reference of thousands of Linux commands, published by O'Reilly and Associates. |
| Q2: | I haven't ever created any files or directories in my home directory, yet files or directories are already there, according to the ls command. Why? |
| A2: | Various ... |