On 2004-10-10 17:13:37 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
Er, thanks, but not really. Well, not at all to be honest. I need the list so I know what I'm doing in command-line, and besides, I've no idea what tty stands for. [...]
tty is teletype. Either Brett is trying to sell old hardware again, or he was using it to meant the text login screens.
Once you have the list of commands, you can get different amounts of help (if written) by looking at: help commandname commandname -h man commandname info commandname
useful when I actually install some packages. ATM I not only don't know what packages I have (apart from Mozilla).
On most debian systems, there are directories under /usr/share/doc containing manuals, README files and so on. That might be a good starting point.