9three Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I'm a hardcore windows users, but what I've found out that a lot of companies require me to know how to use Linux. The only command I know in Linux is exit, and cd.... lol :-/ I've already decided which Linux I will be switching to but I'm in need for a list of commands. I found this: http://files.fosswire.com/2007/08/fwunixref.pdf Not sure if that will help me out ? The first thing that pops into my head is to learn how to install a new program. For example, if I want to install Netbeans in Linux; I have it understood that you run a shell command to install it. What would that be like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Which distro? On Fedora Core/Redhat/Any RPM based system: yum install netbeans (Or maybe yum install netbeans.noarch) Compiling things is much more difficult than when you don't have an RPM that a manager can get for you though. (On some systems apt-get is the 'yum'... Gentoo based systems if I remember right. I'm sure if I'm wrong, someone will correct me ;p.) (For Netbeans, you would actually download a shell script that would do everything for you.) It's really hard to say things in general. I've been using linux for a while now on and off, and I feel no where near comfortable with it (in case you can't tell by my not being sure where apt-get came from ;p). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9three Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 I'm gonna be using Ubuntu. I've also have an eye out for backtrack 3. But I have it understood that it runs on Live CD only? :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Never heard of backtrack 3. As for Ubuntu, that uses apt-get. I don't know if Netbeans is in the Ubuntu apt-get repo or not. I would imagine it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9three Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 where do u learn these commands from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Google and man cmd are pretty much all you'll need unless it's something not-popular or super complex. (man cmd as in man <cmd>... like "man dir" for example to get help with the directory command.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9three Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 alright thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfmason Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 (On some systems apt-get is the 'yum'... Gentoo based systems if I remember right. I'm sure if I'm wrong, someone will correct me ;p.) Gentoo uses emerge. Debian based distros use apt e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, DSL etc. Also, apt can be installed on other systems as well. I used to use apt on an old FC4 server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Ahhhh Debian! Dunno why I was thinking Gentoo. Yeah, I've heard you can install any repo tool on any distro.... Didn't know people actually do that though ;p. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpiekarski Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 For Gentoo, there is the Gentoo Handbook (see: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml ). This actually covers a ton of non-gentoo commands as well. There are some really common commands as well as some obscure ones in there. Doing a quick Google search for "Bash Reference" gave some good hits: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html (Bash being 'bourne again shell') http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ also goes over bash scripting. You don't necessarily have to write scripts to start with. However guides like those REALLY help! You will find, by going through people's bash scripts, there are many ways to do the same thing. http://tldp.org/guides.html Has a ton of guides as well. From Beginner level things to Advanced stuff. It is a large variety here and can be a great resource. I am sure just about anyone that reads this has seen and/or read an Oreilly book or 2. Well, Oreilly also has an AWESOME website with just about ALL of their tech books available for reading. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/?portal=oreilly is the link. If you look on there, you can sign up for a free trial. After the trial is up, it is very affordable for what you get out of it. Pricing information is on the site. I think this is the very BEST resource for us IT Guys and Gals out there. Oreilly has published hundreds of linux books for both beginners and experts. This is a GREAT place to start... Not just for Linux but anything for IT. Also remember that Ubuntu's forums carry a HUGE following / Community. http://ubuntuforums.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9three Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 thanks for the info mpiekarski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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