Overview

The biggest criticisms levelled against UNIX and thus Linux are that its commands are not intuitive and the fact that it seems to have multiple commands that appear to do the same job. These pose difficulties to both novice and occasional users, who find it infuriating when they cannot find or remember how to perform some simple operation or when a command works in some cases, but not in others. The normal procedure for UNIX documentation is to list the commands in alphabetical order because this make its easier for someone to find them. This is fine but it does not help those who do not know the Linux commands in the first place. As a result, I have arranged the commands in this chapter according to their use and not alphanumeric position. Commands associated with transferring data from disk to disk are grouped together and so on.