Ubuntu Terminal Commands

[Kejsare102]

We just started working with Ubuntu in school and until next week I'm supposed to find 10 terminal commands and then explain how they work. I can easily find 10 simple commands but I'm looking for something a little bit more impressive.

Do you guys know any cool/useful terminal commands?

[TSegers]

1. "cowsay", the single most awesome command, ever, period.

2. "su" is pretty essential, so i'd include it

3. "uname" list various system information

I don't know of other really "impressive" commands...

Good luck!

Edit: Maybe "md5sum"?

[lutzee]

Important for general use: cat, man(hint use this to get your info for other commands) , sudo(as you are on ubuntu and you are locked out of the main root user unless you force it with the install CD and other less practical methods).

Then you have file system stuff:

cd, ls, mkdir, rm , rmdir, mv, chown, chmod, df

Then something you might use along side commands: grep

Then theres command line style programs: nano, vi, vim, screen

That should keep you going i guess, a lot of basic stuff

[ffdd4846]

I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro and a lenovo X230 with windows 7. I do enjoy using my Mac more then my windows pc and I like the unix underneath the surface of OS X. I have an install disk for Ubuntu 12.10 and I can boot off of it. However I have an external drive that I am using as a back up and I have partitioned some space on it for Ubuntu. What kind of file system and boot registry should I create on that external drive so I can instal and boot into Ubuntu from that external drive?

Also the Ubuntu reads my external drive with the two partitions as a Raid array even though it is not a RAID array. It is just a back up drive with some empty space i have put into another partition for Ubuntu.

[TSegers]

I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro and a lenovo X230 with windows 7. I do enjoy using my Mac more then my windows pc and I like the unix underneath the surface of OS X. I have an install disk for Ubuntu 12.10 and I can boot off of it. However I have an external drive that I am using as a back up and I have partitioned some space on it for Ubuntu. What kind of file system and boot registry should I create on that external drive so I can instal and boot into Ubuntu from that external drive?

Also the Ubuntu reads my external drive with the two partitions as a Raid array even though it is not a RAID array. It is just a back up drive with some empty space i have put into another partition for Ubuntu.

Select EXT4 as your filesystem, and set the "mount point" of the selected partition to "/" (wihout the quotes). That should do.

[Dodge]

A few basics: http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/07/20/top-17-terminal-commands-every-ubuntu-user-should-know-about/

[w1n5t0n]

man, help, chown, chmod, su, sudo, cd, rm, ln, fdisk, vi, grep, sed, awk, ls, history, echo, kill, killall, pkil, top, less, more, time, uname, cat, md5sum, source and much much more

[NeoZeon]

pretty obvious:

[t0wer]

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