Top terminal commands? need input

[dracule]

Hey guys, I am planning on teaching one of my friends how to use the terminal. He is pretty much totally naive about the terminal, and refuses to use it all costs.

So I was wondering what you guys thought were the top commands that I should teach him.

like basics such as

cd ls apt-get sudo gksudo ifconfig tar etc..

what do you guys think?

[RiceMonster]

rm, mv, cp..

[lemuriaX]

man
pwd
cat

[p_quarles]

Obviously you're going to want to start with awk and sed.

In seriousness: start with file navigation and manipulation (cd, cp and so forth). Then cat/less, mount/pmount, and apt/dpkg.

Finally, the self-service commands: man, locate, grep, find, whatis, which.

EDIT: I forgot: be sure to include tab completion in this training.

[FuturePilot]

EDIT: I forgot: be sure to include tab completion in this training.

That is a must :D