Why Different Commands ?

[Lewis Futrell]

I would like to commend the people who have responded to this thread.  It is
the friendly and informative responses that I've seen that makes me
appreciate the Ubuntu community the way I do and allow me to recommend
X/K/Ubuntu to the people who ask me about what Linux distro to use.  I've
seen too many instances of "RTFM" to my liking.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Kelsey [mailto:toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:38 AM
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
> Subject: Re: Why Different Commands ?
> 
> Vilas Sukhadeve wrote:
> 
> > Here I would like to know why different commands have to be used in
> > Terminal. e.g. sudo, apt-get, chmod, mkdir, #, I know only these
> > commands so far. What these different commands stand for ? If you feel
> > this is just child like query but still as a responsible parent please
> > tell me just for my information.
> 
> Many command names are abbreviations of the description, thus
> 
> sudo  = superuser-do
> mkdir = make a directory
> pwd   = print working directory
> chmod = change file mode
> 
> Note: 'directory' means 'folder'.
> This makes it a bit easier to remember the name of the command.  Ubuntu
> Terminal
> commands are a version of what is called the Unix command-line, so if you
> google
> "unix command-line tutorial" you will find some helpful documents.
> 
> Some common commands are:
> ls, pwd, cd, less, grep, file, bash, locate, find, sudo, ps, kill, top,
> rename,
> mv, rm, mkdir, sed, sleep, date, apropos, du. df
> 
> To find out what a command does, use the 'man' or 'info' command.
> For example,
> 
>    man ls
> 
> or
> 
>    info ls
> 
> will tell you about the command 'ls'.  To find out which command does a
> particular thing, try
> 
>    apropos [thing]
> 
> The Terminal commands are processed by 'bash', so to find out what else
> the
> terminal can do apart from just running a single command, type
> 
>    man bash
> 
> Have fun,
> Toby
>