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In article <82bt5rzp5k.fsf@aptiva.littondale.freeserve.co.uk>, Richard 
Corfield <Richard@Littondale.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>ian@overhere30.freeserve.co.uk (007***) writes:
>
>> I'd try anything if I new how to get past localhost root# or what to type 
>> whist at that prompt (black screen).
>
>It looks like you've logged in as root and are staring at the command
>line.  For starters its reccomended that you use a user other than
>root to do routine things like work as that would prevent you from
>accidently hosing your system. How to add a user depends on your
>system. On my Debian system I'd type
>
> adduser richard
>
>and answer the questions - then log off and log on again as richard.
>
>Anyway - when logged in as a user there are all the normal command
>line things you can do. A basic one for example is:
>
> ls
>
>to get a listing of files in the current directory. If it gives nothing
>try "ls -a". 
>
>If your shell (the command prompt program) is not set up to tell you
>what directory you're currently in you can get it with
>
> pwd
>
>If you have the manuals installed you may find some of the following
>useful. You can get at them with the man command.
>
> man ls
> man man
> man bash
>
>If you have X-windows (the graphical bit) set up then the xman command
>may provide hours of entertaining reading (erm...). See if the
>"startx" command does anything useful.
>
>You can change directory with the "cd" command. To get back where you
>came from the "cd -" command goes back. UNIXs like Linux have user
>home directories where all your documents go. To get back to your home
>directory try "cd ~".  Other aliases work such as "cd ~/MyDocuments"
>assuming you have a directory called MyDocuments in your home
>directory. To look in someone else's directory (assuming they have
>given you permission) try "cd ~user".
>
>A nice feature of the way UNIX shells work is that its the shell not
>the "cd" command thats translating ~ and * and whatever else. This
>makes it far easier to write programs and makes things behave
>consistantly for a user's favourite shell.  I can't say I've found the
>same under Windows. Another really nice feature is tab completion. If
>you're using bash under Linux (most likely) it should be set up. Try
>starting to enter a filename and hitting the TAB key once or twice
>part way through.
>
>The shell is very powerful - the bash manual page should give a lot of
>information. For a slightly less tame example I could delete all compiled
>Java programs in my ~/Java directory with the following command (which is
>one of many possible ways to do it)
>
>rm -i $(find ~/Java -name '*.class')
>
>The -i option on rm is interactive mode so it will ask before deleting.
>
>Of course you can also use the shell to launch programs such as vi, emacs,
>pine, strn and so forth.

Thanks Richard ;o)

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Ian.
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