Some more useful commands

[Longman, Bill]

> On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:24  PM, glenn greenfield wrote:
> > A few other handy things to know-
> > man hier = "Description of the file system hierarchy"
> 
> How incredibly useful. I note with irony:
> /sbin  ...this directory holds commands... which are usually not 
> executed by normal users
> 
> I estimate that 50% of the commands I must issue from the console 
> (because they do not have GUI equivalents) are in this 
> directory. That 
> is why your previous $PATH tip was so useful to me!

You might find this useful, too, Clint:

$ man <section> intro

So if you want an intro to Linux system calls:

$ man 2 intro