Appendix A. Useful Commands

This appendix is intended to be used as a quick reference that covers the details of some important commands mentioned in the text of Red Hat Linux 6 Visual QuickPro.

The following commands are discussed:

  • find

  • ftp

  • ls

  • ps

  • vi

If you are going to be doing much work at the Linux command line, I recommend the following two books:

  • Linux in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, by Ellen Siever (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1999). This is a bare-bones but comprehensive book in the "Nutshell" style.

  • UNIX:Visual QuickStart Guide, by Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray (Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 1998). This book does a great job of explaining how to use Unix commands.

Get Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial