[Novalug] Linux and Novallug

James Ewing Cottrell III jecottrell3@comcast.net
Tue Sep 19 15:07:02 EDT 2017


Instead of nitpicking, embrace the flexibility of my statement Try the 
following: "The idea here is that the shortest commands are in general 
the most important/frequently used". and please not that I included the 
commands: man ??; man ???; man ???? # followed by man ?????

You seem stuck on the word "two". Focus on "short" instead. Short 
includes "three" and "four", even "five", maybe even "six".

The domain here is "How does a Novice learn UNIX/Linux", not comparing 
specialized package lists. This Novice would do well to confine 
themselves to the @core and @base package lists.

Now if you had suggested that...

man $(rpm -ql coreutils | grep /bin/ | sed 's;.*/;;')

...might be a better way, you would have a point. But instead, you 
attacked me with "is that a joke"?

Stop being a jerk.

JIM

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