Your best source of information regarding nearly ANY command is the manpage. Using 'man <command>' (ie 'man rm') will help you not only know what that command does, but gets you used to using the included help system within any *NIX.
Don't know exactly the command to use??? 'man -k word' will show you all manpages with 'word' in the name and description.
There are also, with many Linux distributions, a docs directory (usually /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc) which includes a lot of great documentation.
You'd be surprised how much more you will learn about a command and what it can do with the manpages.
Also, look at the bottom of the manpage for "SEE_ALSO", that will give you more commands to look at and learn more with...
Other sources of information are the info pages (man info for more info
, the How-Tos and
Hope this helps,
Paul
Don't know exactly the command to use??? 'man -k word' will show you all manpages with 'word' in the name and description.
There are also, with many Linux distributions, a docs directory (usually /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc) which includes a lot of great documentation.
You'd be surprised how much more you will learn about a command and what it can do with the manpages.
Also, look at the bottom of the manpage for "SEE_ALSO", that will give you more commands to look at and learn more with...
Other sources of information are the info pages (man info for more info
, the How-Tos and Hope this helps,
Paul
