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Hey!

Do you guys know of a good site that can explain all the Unix commands... I have been using Unix f�r almost 6 months but still have probelms with things like -u -U -g -G -R -T bla bla bla bla

thanks!
Dave

You're in luck, you don't even need a site, the instructions ought to exist on your UNIX machine. Indeed nobody could hope to memorize them all :slight_smile: Try "man commandname" to bring up instructions for the command, including what paramaters it uses. Arrow keys or spacebar scrolls through the text, q quits.

you need to have a command efter "man" commando.. t.ex man ls

what i am looking f�r is just an explenation of all the switches....
there must be a sight that gives a overview of these? :confused:

The switches are specific to each program - that's why we need online manual pages. Some are long "ls --color=tty", some are short "ls -l" and some are even shorter "dd if=/dev/zero". But doesn't mean the same thing to different programs, unless the author of the program has specifically done so.