in defense of the command line

[Dave Hunt <]

Hello,

For many of these commands, like "ls", you can do a "--help" option,
to get usage instructions.  Don't forget the ever-popular "man".  

If a command reported no errors, it succeeded.  

-Dave

Octavian Rasnita writes:
 > Hi, thanks. Nice explanation.
 > I am not intimidate  by the command lines. I am frightened by the idea of
 > breaking something.
 > Maybe I type rm fILE instead of rm File and I could delete another file. And
 > I don't know the undelete command.
 > The most used command by me is pwd, to be sure that I am in the right
 > directory, and ls, to see the files from there.
 > The other problem I have is that I don't remember very easy the parameters.
 > I usually remember  the command name but I can't remember if I should use
 > the -L parameter or the -l parameter.
 > I've seen that for some commands, the same parameter make the same thing,
 > but for other commands that parameter make another thing.
 > If I remember well, it is the case of -R parameter, but I don't remember
 > exactly in what commands makes what.
 > In some commands, it means Recursive in the directory tree, but  in other
 > commands, it means another thing.
 > 
 > Another problem, and maybe here I can make something to  improve, is that
 > after I give a command like sync, it doesn't tell me if the command was
 > successfully or not, and I don't know what to do.
 > I typed that command from another account than root, and it didn't tell me
 > anything. It didn't tell me if the command  was successfully or not or if I
 > have the right to type that command from another account than root.