All Annotations of Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands[Preview]

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• This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often. Press
  
  

  
  
  to see the listing of all available command (on your PATH). On my small
  home system, it says there are 2595 executables on my PATH.  Many
  of these "commands" can be accessed from your favourite GUI front-end (probably
  KDE or Gnome) by clicking on the right menu or button. They can all be
  run from the command line.  Programs that require GUI have to be run
  from a terminal opened under a GUI.
  
• <Ctrl><Alt><F7>
  
  Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on this terminal).
• <Shift><PgUp>
  
  Scroll terminal output up. Work also at the login prompt, so you can
  scroll through your bootup messages.
• <Shift><PgDown>
  
  Scroll terminal output down.
• cat /proc/cpuinfo
  
  Cpu info--it show the content of the file cpuinfo.

• cat /proc/version
  
  Linux version and other info
  

• find / -name "filename"
  
  Find the file called "filename" on your filesystem starting the search
  from the root directory "/". The "filename" may contain wildcards (*,?).

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  Program installation

  
  rpm -ivh filename.rpm
  
  (=RedhatPackageManager, install, verbose, hashes displayed to show
  progress, as root.) Install a content of RedHat rpm package(s) and print
  info on what happened. Keep reading if you prefer a GUI installation.
  

  rpm -qpi filename.rpm
  
  (=RedhatPackageManager, query, package, list.) Read the info on the
  content of a yet uninstalled package
  filename.rpm.

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