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Old 05-10-2009, 10:17 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Linux CLI - commands

I have been searching for a while on the net as well as here, and I am trying to find an all-inclusive (or at least fairly extensive) list of commands for the Terminal. What happens is I get some sites that are specific, and I know someone is going to "Let me google that for you"

What I am trying to find is one or two sites that I can refer to with a list of commands that I don't have to flip back and forth so I can print them out to post by the computer for convenience. Thanks in advance if anyone can help, by the way.
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There can never be a conclusive list of all linux commands because other than shell builtins such as cd, linux commands are all executables that sit in one of the directories listed in the $PATH variable. For example if I were to write a program called party and put it in /usr/bin/ then `party` would become a command. On top of that you have all the executables which are not in the $PATH and are called by being fully pathed eg. /outside/path/variable/party or are called from a script.
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Ok, but I was thinking there was a basic listing of commands that you can use, such as listing contents of a directory, a la :

ls -l which yields a listing of files in a given directory.

Thanks, for the explanation Kmote.

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I found this link, which will serve the purpose. <<This link was basically what I was looking for, but while searching, I found this site as well >> Learning The Shell

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