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Do you know if the opera zoom levels are in gconf?

grep - a "filter" for example:

ps -a | grep -i user

(list all process status' and send the output (| is a "pipe". windows uses them also) to grep which is told to ignore case differences (-i) and only show output lines that contain "user"

cat = type

like:

type c:\autoexec.bat

(list the file on the screen)

cd = cd

change current directory (whatd'ya know, windows stole the command from unix !!!) if you want to go "up" a directory, you will have to put a space between cd and the ..

cd ..

more = more

(see cd... windows stole the command from linux)

ls -a | more

list all files in the current directory and pipe the output to more so you will get one screen at a time.

BTW: ls = dir

EXCEPT you usually want to ls -a so you can see files and directories that are "hidden" (which is usually the ones that start with a . (dot))

try:

ls -a | sort

just like dir | sort, this will show the contents of the current directory alphabetically (except dir | sort shows the date and time first, so you get you dir in date order.... not really usefull..)

ls -a | sort | more

sort the output before showing you a page at a time...

so what's the current directory?

pwd

will tell you.

just remember big and little (or as New Yorkers have them: upper and lower case) ALWAYS make a difference in linux.

Perhaps the biggest omission on the 770 is built-in-help is not included for commands: in a "normal" linux command-box (shell) you can type

man cat

to get a concise explanation of the command: page-up/down to see it all and then press q to quit...

and if you forget how to use man, you can type

man man

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Last edited by putkowski; 2006-01-21 at 01:53.
 

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