[linux-help] Re: new to this, need help please

[Ivan <itrail@xxxxxxx>]

George U. F wrote:

>hi all... i'm new to linux and whatnot, i just installed redhat 9 on my box.
>i'm using my root account to learn, but i've bee told this is not good...
>i created a user through x windows because i dont know how to do it in the
>"command prompt" or whatever it's called.....
>
>i was wondering if there's any linux tutorials out there online that i can 
>learn from
>starting with the basics... i mean... i've gone to www.ctssn.com, and so far 
>i've 
>learned quite a bit.... but i dont have internet access at home so there's 
>only so 
>much i can do from there.....
>and i cant really invest in any books right now because my wife and i are 
>expecting in january, and i'm barely making enough 
>as it is at work, (mcconnell afb)
>
>anywho.... i hope i sent this to the right place...
>
>
>thanks much,
>ulysses f.
>
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ues the man pages a lot, and info too.  I.e.  "# man useradd"  or # info 
useradd"

One thing I am finding helpful is the | command.  it is called "pipe"  
along with the command "more"  you can Pipe the output of anything into 
"more" which is a text viewer.  For instance you could "grep /dev/hda3 | 
more"  which woudl print the raw data from the third partition of the 
first hard drive in the more text viewer.  That, specifically,  would 
not be recommended, (what if you had a 100 gig partition!!!) but it is 
handy for files like config files.  you can read them and see what is 
going on in the config files and see what each one does.

Hope this helps.  And try to stay out of root.  If you need to do 
something as root, you can use the command su.  just type su and it will 
ask for the root password.  Then you will have root privilages.

Hope this helps a tad.

Ivam

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