TOP10: Your Top Ten Man Pages

[snairofilac]

Please list your top 10 (or more) must-research topics for noobies.
list what hasn't been listed

here's my little-informed top 10

top
env
apt
root
chroot
chmod
sudo
alias
df
passwd

if you don't know what they mean get a-whackin

[LeNain]

Well, i would certainly add : man man

[snairofilac]

yes
man info
man apropos
man locate
man find
man bash

[GarySaved]

The man page for su needs to be updated.

It needs to say the root superuser account is not used, and refer them to sudo .

Gary

[dataw0lf]

init
signal
grep
awk
sed
xargs
dpkg
apt-get
crontab
ln

[jdong]

wasn't really security related, so I moved it to Community Chat.

Commands that I depend on to survive day-to-day console work, in no particular order:


sudo
apt-get
fakeroot
find (especially for generating lists of files efficiently)
xargs (especially the -i switch)
awk
sed
dpkg and related commands (the --force-overwrite dpkg flag)

[jdong]

The man page for su needs to be updated.

It needs to say the root superuser account is not used, and refer them to sudo .

Gary

Please file this at http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/ , where it'll receive much more developer attention.

[HungSquirrel]

One of the best ideas for a manpage is OpenBSD's afterboot (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html). I think more distros should implement something similar.