Logged in as an ordinary user, look around and try out some commands that will access the sources of help and information within FreeBSD.
Here are some commands and what they do:
Tells you who you are!
Shows you where you are—the current working directory.
Lists the files in the current directory.
-F
Lists the files in the current directory with a * after executables, a / after directories, and an @ after symbolic links.
-l
Lists the files in long format—size, date, permissions.
-a
Lists hidden “dot” files with the others.
If you are root, the “dot” files show up
without the -a
switch.
Changes directories. cd
..
backs up one level;
note the space after cd. cd
/usr/local
goes there.
cd ~
goes to the
home directory of the person logged in—e.g.,
/usr/home/jack. Try cd
/cdrom
, and then
ls, to find out if your CDROM is
mounted and working.
Lets you look at a file (named
filename) without changing it.
Try view
/etc/fstab
.
Type :q to quit.
Displays filename on
screen. If it is too long and you can see only the end of
it, press ScrollLock and use the
up-arrow to move backward; you can use
ScrollLock with manual pages too. Press
ScrollLock again to quit scrolling. You
might want to try cat on some of the
dot files in your home directory—cat
.cshrc
, cat
.login
, cat
.profile
.
You will notice aliases in .cshrc for some of the ls commands (they are very convenient). You can create other aliases by editing .cshrc. You can make these aliases available to all users on the system by putting them in the system-wide csh configuration file, /etc/csh.cshrc.