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:NewsForge: CLI for Noobies: An Initiation more or less
NewsForge: CLI for Noobies: An Initiation more or less
Nov 17, 2003, 08 :30 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6830 reads)

(Other stories by Joe Barr)

"Today is all about tips and tricks from the command line. The only thing they share is that at times they can be useful for life on the CLI-frontier and beyond. Most are exceedingly easy to learn and to use. But as always, be sure and do a man or info on each command covered here to fill in the gaps. The last one takes you a little deeper than we've been before. It will be an initiation of sorts. But don't worry. You can handle it.

"There is a very handy program included in most Linux distributions called more. Like many other things, it came to Linux via BSD. It's used to display the contents of a text file one page at a time, rather than simply dumping the entire file to the terminal. If you recall, that's what the cat command does, and if you need information at the top of a file that's more than a page long, you have to read real fast to get it..."

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NewsForge: CLI for Noobies: man for hier(Nov 01, 2003)
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Changing run levels can also be handled  ...   telinit   
Mr. Telinit
Nov 17, 2003, 15:24:18
 
Since when does more not support backwar ...   'b' is for 'back'   
cc
Nov 17, 2003, 18:49:44
 
> Since when does more not support backw ...   Subject: "u" is for "up" Re: 'b' is for &#   
aRTee
Nov 18, 2003, 10:41:36
 
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