Ken,

Great tutorial. I've removed the "for tedd" from your subject line, 
because this will be valuable to a great many of us.

As a complete novice, my biggest problem with the UNIX command line is 
that, unlike FB, I can't see an easy way to browse the manual to learn 
the syntax. I downloaded ManOpen, which at least allows me to see pages 
and navigate, but it's still cumbersome to browse.

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On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 01:59  AM, Ken Shmidheiser wrote:

> tedd,
>
> You already know everything you need to about Unix commands.
>
> You just don't know you know.
>
> If you ever watched the movie, the "Karate Kid" you might remember Mr. 
> Miyagi's "wax on, wax off" instructions to Daniel.
>
> Well tedd, you've been "waxing on and waxing off" for years and now 
> are finally ready to show off those finely-honed link-listed muscles!
>
> Unix commands are simply functions, indeed the same kind of built-in 
> functions we use in FB but in a different form than we're used to 
> seeing.
>
> Here's a comparison:
>
> Fire up the old Terminal and at the prompt type: