Good afternoon!
Any unix, linux book will give you a good hint on posibilities.
Many linux books have discussions of rpm related stuff, fewer discuss
apt..just to pick on two obvious distinctions.
Right now, I'm a Debian guy. I'm studying Debian Linux. For now, I'm only
interested in Debian commands.
If you need a comprehensive list of manuals, man pages is the closest one,
i
think
You are correct. However, to search the man pages means that you already
know the command to start with. What I'd like to do is to be able to say
something like this "Hey, why is my drive/sound card/video card doing
this?", then find a site that lists the commands that are drive-/sound
card-/video card-related so that I can decide what might be run from the CLI
to diagnose/fix/optimize/etc.
A (poor) analogy follows: You go to Mexico/China/Portugal. You are leaving
the departures lounge. A local says something to you. Seriously, are you
going to grab a fellow traveller and demand a translation...each and every
time a local says something to you? Of course not. You'll whip out a
dictionary and grunt through what the local chap is trying to say and what
you'll say in return. Only when that fails will you consider grabbing an
expert to explain the nuances of the conversation. Much more efficient and
much less time consuming than having the entire departure lounge chanting
back at you "No, "clear" will clear your screen, "cls" won't. At least, not
in this country."
If you know what do you want to do, and think is programable, then I think
your best bet is google for it, or ask on list.
In many ways, one of the many purposes of the lists is to act as a very
basic low-level interpreter between a user and the computer. Too much,
maybe. I think that list traffic would be reduced somewhat and a user's
grasp of what is available to him/her would be increased, if there was one
place ( a dictionary?) that folks could go to at least learn the vocabulary
of Debian that is available to them BEFORE hitting up the list experts.
My question is: "Is there such a web-site?"
There's a huge, in the thousands, of comand line programs on any linux
installation, and most people dont know how to use them all, if any,
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a place where ALL the commands are
available to peruse either before a command is needed or when a command is
needed?
so it's better to know a command when you need it, than diving in the man
pages with
the hope of learning how to work CLI.
That's right. But a newb can't "know" and understand a command if he/she
doesn't know it exists. And no one can dive into the man pages without
knowing what they are looking for in the first place. Catch-22!
Rob
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