discuss: Re: GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary comments
Subject:
Re: GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary comments
From:
"Guru -" ####@####.####
Date:
15 Dec 2003 08:50:24 -0000
Message-Id: <Sea2-F35BWmJgqo2VMB0003991e@hotmail.com>
Hi,
> > (quoting David Lawyer)
>A major problem is that of scope. A major consideration is that what
>you cover is already covered in many other documents: in man pages, in
>info pages, in howtos on the Bash shell, in System Admin guides
>(including Debian's) and in most HOWTOs. In Linux, one first learns the
>basic commands. Then if one decides to say, set up a network, they go to
>documentation about networks and learn more commands there concerning
>networks. It's like this for other tasks too. Just taking a small
>subset of commands (some elementary, some advanced) and writing about
>them doesn't make a very useful HOWTO.
Actually it helps you have a reference to the CLI.
It saves you going through thousand-page books to find out what commands you
need to look for or use.
Plus many useful commands are not listed in guides or howtos.
As for man/info pages, who wants to go through hundreds of man/info pages to
find out what each tool does? Why not use a summary to find out and then
read further if you are interested (thats the idea behind the GNU/Linux
Command-line Tools Summary!)
>So what I suggest is that you just cover basic commands (and
>change the name to reflect that). Check first to see if there is
>already free documentation on this topic. Then you might mention some
>more advanced commands but refer to other documentation on how to use
>them. This would be intended to be read by a newbie or by someone who
>wants to review the basic commands. You might look at print books on
>Linux and see what commands they consider to be the most important.
>However, referencing an out-of-date HOWTO isn't a good idea, so you need
>to evaluate what you reference.
Yes, I need to check the references I have used.
I don't agree with any of your suggestions.
>Unfortunately, I don't think we have a satisfactory backup howto. So
>you need to reference various man pages and provide an annotated list
>of the various backup programs. Quite a job.
Well see.
I'll probably leave my description of basic backup commands as is. If
someone can think of a better name then please tell me, I just want to
describe tar and compression utilities I don't need to write a full
backup-howto.
Regards,
Gareth
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