On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:28 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:33, Phet Whore Meyer wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > > > Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one query > > for now: > > In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program Files', > > in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called? > > > > I know that this question is fairly trivial, is there anywhere else i can go > > to find out basic information such as this? > > > > I greatly appreciate the help. > > One good way to figure out what commands are available is to use the > command apropos. > > apropos keyword > > Where keyword is something you are trying to do like: > > apropos filesystem > > apropos searches the whatis database for matches and lists short > descriptions of system commands that match. > Uhhhh, Don't you mean that apropos searches the man pages to find things that match? [jeff@eagle ~]$ apropos /etc/passwd pam_localuser (8) - require users to be listed in /etc/passwd slapd-passwd (5) - /etc/passwd backend to slapd Which indicates the man pages containing those references. > You may need to create the whatis database by running > /usr/sbin/makewhatis. > > You can then use the man command to get details on each of the commands > listed. > > man ls > > man man > > Under linux many of the commands are in /usr/bin but you will find some > packages install commands in other locations as well. >
