Re: Newbie confusion

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:41:05 GMT

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:20:19 GMT, RIck S. wrote:
> How do I access my drives to see what's on them from the GUI or the
> terminal? I can't find a filemanager. In the old DOS days I just went:
> A:
> DIR or DIR/P
> and then I could execute a program from there. How do you do this in Linux?

You click up a console/terminal and use ls

man ls for switches.

when looking for commands:
     apropos keyword_here
or
     man -k keyword_here

Example:
     apropos directory

man man to understand the (n) column

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