Ten Steps to Linux Survival by Jim Lehmer

Author:Jim Lehmer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 2016-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

/var

Installed software

/var/log

Log files

/proc

Real-time system information—similar to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), but easier!

/tmp

Temp files, cleared on reboots

Remember, case matters! And use /, not \!

Changing to another directory with cd is simple, as you can see in Figure 2-5.

Figure 2-5. cd /etc command

Be Lazy

Most modern interactive shells like Bash and Windows Command Prompt allow for tab expansion and command history, at least for the current session of the shell. This is a good thing in a crisis situation, because it saves you typing, and thus, time.

Tab expansion is like autocomplete for the command prompt. Let’s say you have some files in a directory, as shown in Figure 2-6.

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