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Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

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Cli Manual Structure (feel free to edit)

1. First steps

  • Basic commands

2. Getting help (man/info pages)

  • searching man pages

3. Locating commands

  • which
  • whereis
  • apropos

4. Working with files (file types, file management, comparing files)

5. Working with directories (relative vs absolute pathnames, brace/tilde expansion, directory structure)

6. Compressing and archiving files

7. Configuring your environment (variables, aliases, relevant dot files)

8. Configuring a shell prompt

9. Users and groups

10. Permissions and ownership

11. Standard Input and Output / Redirection

  • sorting output and pipes

12. Job control

13. Finding files

14. Finding text in files

15. Useful Parameters and variables

16. Shell history

17. Common keybindings

18. Text processing tools

19. Searching and replacing

20. Managing filesystems (checking/creating/mounting/fstab)

21. Monitoring available resources (disk space/ memory / processes)

22. Getting information / troubleshooting network

23. Automating and scheduling tasks

24. System Maintenance

25. Writing and executing shell scripts

26. Tests and Conditional Statements

27. Flow control (eg. running a command on a number of files)

26. Shell script arguments

27. Shells

28. Development tools

29. Common tasks

downloading torrents

sending and receiving emails

listening to music

tagging your music

Getting things done

reading news

Talking on irc channels

burning a cd

CLI glossary

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