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scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?

Example: df ~~display filesystem?~~ Disk Free. Makes sense.

The man pages generally explain it.

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?

Example: df ~~display filesystem?~~ Disk Free. Makes sense.

The man pages generally explain it.

Ah, man pages. If you haven't yet, learn to love your man pages.

scottalanmiller

df - disk free
du - disk utilization
cat - concatenate
tail - view the tail end of a file
head - view the head of a file
view - view a file
rpm - redhat package manager
yum - yellowdog update manager
top - show the "top" processes
ps - process
glance - take a "glance" at the system
cp - CoPy
mv - MoVe
finger - look up people in the directory like running your finger down the white pages (based on 1970s AT&T advertisements)
who - WHO is on the system
uptime - tell me the uptime of the system
nice - change how nice a process is to other processes
find - find the file I'm looking for
whereis - where is that damn file?

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller thanks

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller thanks

Nearly all of the commands are like this. Just terse abbreviations (to make typing fast, something Microsoft really didn't grok) in most cases or references to things in the 1970s.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller Yeah I like it when it makes sense

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller One of my favorites when first learning UNIX.

whoami - Display current user session.

Because it can get confusing when you've already sudo and su into yet another account. Of course, by the time this becomes useful, you should've probably closed out of your session because you're just confused now.

wirestyle22

yum install man-pages

done

wirestyle22

slowly but surely ladies and gents

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

scottalanmiller

man = MANual

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

the man command worked but man system did not. After the install it worked.

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

the man command worked but man system did not. After the install it worked.

That's weird.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

the man command worked but man system did not. After the install it worked.

That's weird.

Seems like man is installed but man-pages is not.

Son of Jor-El

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Son-of-Jor-El
She's been suffering from Back pain for nearly 12+ months now had MRI scans/X-rays etc see GP's and Consultants. Now been referred to a Neurosurgeon following one of the MRI/X-ray results.

Something to do with the back of the brain trying to escape the scull and go down the spine.

Prayers for her, man!! Hope they can fix it because there's nothing worse than back pain.

travisdh1

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

the man command worked but man system did not. After the install it worked.

That's weird.

Seems like man is installed but man-pages is not.

That's just outright odd, but I know I run into this myself.

wirestyle22

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

the man command worked but man system did not. After the install it worked.

That's weird.

Seems like man is installed but man-pages is not.

That's just outright odd, but I know I run into this myself.

/shrug

I wonder why this happens

travisdh1

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

I always do the minimal install. Unsure if that's supposed to be included or not in the minimal. Seems like it should. Idk.

It's there in minimal for sure.

the man command worked but man system did not. After the install it worked.

That's weird.

Seems like man is installed but man-pages is not.

That's just outright odd, but I know I run into this myself.

/shrug

I wonder why this happens

Someone's misplaced minimalism on the minimal install. I forget which version that was I saw that happen.