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Controlling startup|on boot services:
Actual Directories:
/etc/runlevels/{default|boot|nonetwork|single}


rc-update
rc-update show

rc-update add samba {default|boot|nonetwork|single}


eselect - Gentoo's multi-purpose configuration and management tool
eselect

eselect opengl list

eselect opengl set {xorg-x11|nvidia|intel|ati|radeon}


fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
fdisk -l

fdisk /dev/sda


df - report file system disk space usage
df -h


du - estimate file space usage
du -hs


ls - list (on Windows this is the same as "dir")
ls

ls -l

ls -la

ls -lah


touch - change file timestamps - Can be used to create empty files (aka: 0byte file)
touch /file1


mkdir - make directories
mkdir /home/dir

create the directories because some of the directories in the desired path do not exist - this will create the path in it's entireity
mkdir -p /home/directory/dir

mkdir -p /home/directory/{dir1,dir2,dir3}


rm - delete files
rm

rm /file1 /file2

used to remove a directory (recursive)
rm -r /dir1 /dir2

rm -rf /dir1 /dir2 /file1 /file2


cp /file1 /file2

copy a directory (recursive)
cp -R /dir1 /dir2


grep - searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named, or if a single hyphen-minus (-) is given as file name) for lines containing a match to the given PATTERN. By default, grep prints the matching lines.
grep

grep <string> file1

ex:
grep root /etc/passwd


Working example using ls & grep
ls -la /etc | grep passwd


mount - mount a file system
mount

mount -a

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /boot

mount -t ntfs-g3 /dev/sda5 /mnt/windows


umount - unmount file systems
umount

umount -a
Posted on: 2010/2/15 19:48
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