Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2005 05:59 PM
These are simple commands that could have been mentioned:
which - shows the full path of the executable that would be executed. Useful to disambiguate if there are different executables in different paths with the same name.
uname - print system information. Use as $ uname -a to print all information
whoami - print currently used login. Useful when you are jumping via ssh from one system to another
hostname - print name of the host.
finger - report information about users on local and remote machines
file - report information about the type of a certain file.
lpq/lpstat - report status of print jobs
ps - show active processes in the system.
who - reports which users are logged in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
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missing commands that should have been mentioned
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2005 05:59 PMwhich - shows the full path of the executable that would be executed. Useful to disambiguate if there are different executables in different paths with the same name.
uname - print system information. Use as
$ uname -a
to print all information
whoami - print currently used login. Useful when you are jumping via ssh from one system to another
hostname - print name of the host.
finger - report information about users on local and remote machines
file - report information about the type of a certain file.
lpq/lpstat - report status of print jobs
ps - show active processes in the system.
who - reports which users are logged in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
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