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Some other commands for the beginner
On request from people visiting this page, I'll list some commands the new user might want to know. Most of this is also availiable in the DOS to Linux HOWTO, check out the Linux Documentation Project for HOWTO's and other very interesting material.
Table 2-1. Some useful (?) Linux commands.
| DOS Command | Linux Command | Comment |
| dir | ls | List files in the current directory |
| dir | ls -l | List files, now with user right details and dates and other perhaps interesting stuff. |
| Not present in DOS | ps | Lists processes you've started. Give it the argument aux for all the processes on the system. |
| type | cat | List a file |
| more | more or less or most or.. | List files longer than the screen length. more is standard, less is very common, most is not as common. |
| help | man or whatis or apropos | Commands to learn more about the system. run man man sometime. |
| fdisk | fdisk | A very funny game, don't play it too often =) |
| chkdisk | fsck | Fsck is often run automatically when it's needed, at bootup. |
| nc | mc | mc is a very good Norton Commander clone. |
I can't remember any more dos commands =)