Red Hat 9 stuff

[Kezzer]

Ok so i got RH9 installed on my ickle system sat in the corner although i need to learn bash commands

Luckily AgentDave was willing to help me out and showed me how to install the "apt-get" and use "openssh" with "putty" so i can tunnel through to my linux system and enter bash.

The problem is, i don't know any bash commands, i have visited a website with 'all' of them there but it's a little difficult to understand at the moment.

Also i need to know how to install 'psybnc' from a .tar.gz. How do i extract it using bash and compile it?

I prefer to do everything through the bash because this way i'll learn to do things in linux without using the GUI and the bash doesn't change much from distro to distro.

Cheers in advance
kez

[Raz316]

cd /directory/you/want/to/go/to/ # change directory
cd ~ # change to your home directory
pwd # show your current directory
ls # list directory contents (like dir in dos)
ls -al # list directory contents, including hidden files alphabetically

tar zxvf woop123.tar.gz # to extract a tar'd and gz'd file to a subdirectory called woop123

cat filename # read the contents of a file
cat filename | more # read the contents of a file page by page
(after extracting a tar look for an INSTALL or README file for installation tips)

you can press the tab key to complete filenames. For example, the only file in the current dirctory is super.speshul.file.tar.gz. From the prompt I could type super (well, just an 's' would do as its the only file there), press tab and 'super.speshul.file.tar.gz' would appear.

[directhex]

apt on redhat? eek!

[Kezzer]

What's wrong with apt on red hat? :O

Cheers Raz306, what was the command to list all running programs? I thought it was ** -a (replace stars with letters

[Raz316]

ps -a ?

[directhex]

ps -a

and red hat's package manager is RPM - for APT you're supposed to use an APT (i.e. debian)-based distro

now my brain hurts

[Kezzer]

Although APT works fine on Red Hat

Justify?