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Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

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Cli Manual Structure (feel free to edit)

  1. Introduction
  2. First steps
    1. Basic commands
  3. Getting help (man/info pages)
    1. searching man pages
  4. Locating commands
    1. which
    2. whereis
    3. apropos
  5. Working with files (file types, file management, comparing files)
  6. Working with directories (relative vs absolute pathnames, brace/tilde expansion, directory structure)
  7. Compressing and archiving files
  8. Configuring your environment (variables, aliases, relevant dot files)
  9. Configuring a shell prompt
  10. Users and groups
  11. Permissions and ownership
  12. Standard Input and Output / Redirection
    1. sorting output and pipes
  13. Job control
  14. Finding files
  15. Finding text in files
  16. Useful Parameters and variables
  17. Shell history
  18. Common keybindings
  19. Text processing tools
  20. Searching and replacing
  21. Managing filesystems (checking/creating/mounting/fstab)
  22. Monitoring available resources (disk space/ memory / processes)
  23. Getting information / troubleshooting network
  24. Automating and scheduling tasks
  25. System Maintenance
  26. Writing and executing shell scripts
  27. Tests and Conditional Statements
  28. Flow control (eg. running a command on a number of files)
  29. Shell script arguments
  30. Shells
  31. Development tools
  32. Common tasks
    1. downloading torrents
    2. sending and receiving emails
    3. listening to music
    4. tagging your music
    5. Getting things done
    6. reading news
    7. Talking on irc channels
    8. burning a cd
  33. CLI glossary
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