command line

So i have an operating systems test coming up it's pretty much command line stuff for windows, dos, and linux. Creating directories, files, deleting files all that good stuff. Anyone know of a site for commands and whatnots the book we use in class is ok really not a big help lol.

 

Some of us remember DOS, some of us don't. I used to be able to tap in to a huge work pool because I knew DOS. Even simple things such as installing Windows 98 were a problem. Sometimes DOS catches people out these days, but not as often as in the past.

Here are some commands;

Change Directory: cd\
Change to "A" drive: a:
Delete a file; del something.something
Delete all ".exe" files; del *.exe
Rename a file"; ren [filename]
dir; list all files in directory

Face it .... there are a lot of them - some really cool ones - and lets wait for someone to post a link Or you are welcome to query any commands you don't understand. My memory may provide some answers. MAY!

 

Got another question....how would you remove all the files owned by a user in the /users directory in unix?

 

This page - http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/seminars/unix-intro/filemgmt.html suggests that if you are in a particular directory, typing "rm *" will delete all files in the current directory. That's news to me! I never got in to Unix but I find it interesting because it's similar to the rem command I used to use when playing around with config.sys.

 

Unix/Linux

change to a static directory

change to a relative directory

to remove all files in a directory

to remove an empty directory

to remove a directory with files in it

Create an empty file

create an empty directory

list files in a directory

view contents of a file

or

delete all files in user1's home directory

delete the home directory of user1

You can find information in the manual pages, aka man pages. Each basic command has an entry. To get info about a command, type:

For example:

Remember that Unix/Linux is case sensitive. You can have two files named file1 and File1 that are different. Don't use upper case for commands (unless the command has an upper case letter).

 

Hey that's interesting. Maybe I'd like Linux

 

thanks adderall and when you say directory you mean dir right? lol

 

and how do you get back to the regular terminal window after using the man command for some reason it wont and i have to x out the window

 

press Q

 

Lol yeah. Q for quit.