Assuming you know the command but dont know exactly what it is for or how
to use it you can always use the man pages.
syntax would be as simple as...
man commandgoeshere
you also, can check out..
http://www.linuxhelp.org/
Is extremely effective for researching general problems and issues and
just reading up about linux in general.
Troy Moniz
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, robert jorgenson wrote:
> WoW this is gonna sound dumb but...i am completely new to linux and i
> was wondering if there was a website i could go to that has a list of
> like basic commands and what you can do with them. Again i know this
> sounds dumb but i have a computer and i cant do anything with it as of
> yet because i cant get X up :( i think my distro cd's are bad...so i
> wanna connect my box to the internet and download it from an ftp site
> and build it myself. But i dont know how to do that yet :( so any help
> would be great!
>
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