====== Quick Command List: Command reference ======

Command	Short description	References
alias	Change a command name or behavior	Bash Beginners Guide
apropos	list manpages that contain a word in name or description
cat	Display a file
chroot	run command or interactive shell with special root directory	RUTE. Section 20.7.1
cp	Copy	RUTE, Section 4.4
find	find files	RUTE, Section 4.14 Linux in a Nutshell
grep	Get Regular ExPression searches files (or stdin) for patterns	long LBo-URL RUTE, chapter 5: Regular Expressions
info	information on a command	RUTE, Section 4.8
less	Display a file scroll forward and backward	RUTE, Section 4.9
locate	find files in database faster than 'find'	RUTE, Section 4.14 Linux in a Nutshell
ls	List files	RUTE, Section 4.1 Linux in a Nutshell
man	View manual page	RUTE, Section 4.7
mount	Access cdrom, floppy, and other filesystems	RUTE, Section 19.4 Linux in a Nutshell
mv	Move
popd	Removes entries from the directory stack	RUTE, Section 20.4
pushd	Adds a directory to the top of the directory stack	RUTE, Section 20.4
rm	Remove a file
shutdown -h now	Shutdown the system now
shutdown -r now	Shutdown and reboot
startx	Start Xwindows
umount	to unmount yes, the "n" is missing	RUTE, Section 19.4
unalias	Remove alias definition	Bash Beginners Guide
updatedb	Create or update the database for locate	RUTE, Section 4.14
Type few letters and TAB	Autocompletion or list commands beginning with those letters

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