Article demystifies "top ten" Linux shell commands

Posted by tadelste on Oct 19, 2005 11:24 PM EDT
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In the dark days before GUIs (way, way back in the '70s and earlier), command-line instructions were all a computer could understand from a human. Technically, it's still all they understand -- but the instructions have been obfiscated by the use of the point-and-click GUI interface.

However, there are still times when users find a need to drop down to a Linux shell prompt, and enter the strange and wondrous world of the CLI (command line interface). To that end, Linux developers Steve Campbell and Sunil Patel have put together a list of the "Newbie's Top Ten Commands." These are the most-often used -- thus the most important -- command-line instructions that exist, according to the authors.

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What?!?! vi did not make the list? PaulFerris 15 1,186 Oct 21, 2005 5:51 PM

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