Talk:Linux Guide/Linux commands


 * Most of these commands don't have anything to do with Bash. They are just command line programs that can run in any shell (like ksh or tcsh). --SamSam 01:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A few of them are Bash or Bourne shell builtins. --Kernigh 03:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Merge/move proposal
I suggest merging this into Guide to UNIX/Commands, where I am already contributing. It already has some Linux-specific commands (lsmod, modprobe) and at least one builtin command (cd). One idea might be to move this page to Guide to UNIX/Commands/Index, then wait for contributors to link commands to their descriptions. --Kernigh 03:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * FOR - it's just duplication really --H2g2bob 22:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Against - the resulting article would be too long. -- CFeyecare   Talk!   19:07, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Man to wiki
Since the man pages for the gnu commands are also GPL, is it reasonable to have a bot creating wiki pages from man pages? --SamSam 20:43, 28 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Most of the GNU "man" manuals (like ls) refer you to the "info" manuals (like coreutils). By the texinfo source of the coreutils manual, I read, Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License... with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. This statement seems compatible with Copyrights.


 * At one point I considered taking text from the coreutils manual to fill in missing commands for Guide to UNIX/Commands. I decided against this. Instead, I am planning to make links to the coreutils manual on GNU's web site, the various *BSD manual pages, and the Linux Questions wiki.


 * However, you, or other contributors, might take text from GNU manuals. In this case, the GFDL section 4 item I seems to require the creation of a "History" section describing how the GNU version and then the modified Wikibooks version was made. (If you, or other contributors, do not want to modify the GNU manual text, but want it in wiki format, then Wikisource might be a better place.)


 * However, many GNU manuals contain Invariant Sections or Cover Texts. In these cases, they seem to be incompatible with Copyrights, and cannot be used on Wikibooks. This includes the gcc and emacs manuals. --Kernigh 00:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

commands
i'm unshure that they belongs to coreutils but i've founded on all my systems(gentoo,qtopia embedd,knoppix)

-wget (downloader)

-losetup(link a file to a dev in order to mount loop files (ex:/knoppix.img to /dev/loop/0))

-md5sum

enchement proposal
why not making a command line tutorial with the folowing things: the | that is a pipe the > that write the data to a file etc... and a link to a bash script programing guide at the end of this book and use this guide as in introduction for the bash script programing guide