Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Appendix B. Top Linux Commands and Utilities

In This Appendix

• General Guidelines

• The List

This appendix is not meant to replace the man pages and does not detail all of the options for each command. You will find most of the information you need in the man pages for these programs or, in the case of a shell operator such as > or <, in the man pages for the shell commands. This appendix is designed to give you a feel for the commands and a brief description as to what they do. In most cases, more parameters are available than are shown here.

Many descriptions also have examples. If these examples are not self-evident, an explanation is provided. This is not an exhaustive list—Red Hat Linux comes with many more commands—but these are the most common, ...