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Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11 This tutorial is supposed to show useful terminal commands to people who are new to Linux. Terminal commands are powerful tools if they are used correctly, but can cause great damage if you are not completely aware of what you are doing. Before using commands that are new to you, look up the manual page and make sure you have your files saved and backed up.
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The su command should be avoided (root password), instead use sudo -i (root use with the user password) this opens a new shell as pseudo-root user to do more than one thing as being root and an exit or CTRL+D brings you back to your own user shell. Linux is a multi-user system and in my case not all of my computer users are a member of the sudo group.
Su has advantages over Sudo in many situations. It's good for when you have just one root level program to run and it doesn't leave a rootshell open, with it's attendant risks of forgetting who you are and running risky programs as root.
Why is this article titled "Useful Basic Terminal Commands on Mint 11" when the commands are pretty much universal default in most distributions? Though not in Red Had distros, you will find "apt" in Debian based distros. "locate" is found in pretty much all distributions by default except for Gentoo, where it can be emerged through portage.
Take away the title and it is a good article.
I'm an avid Linux user and an automation specialist, most of the time I work on Ubuntu. It's a nice article with precise explanation and example. Examples are clearly helping to understand the usage of the commands. Thanks.
Why such a limited article? Why not a more comprehensive list of commands, by frequency of use and alphbetically and in a printable format?