[committee] Alterations to Top 20 UNIX Commands

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Dec 22 09:43:42 WST 2004


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, David Adam wrote:

> Davyd et al.,
> 
> Make man first. Add apropos immediately below. (This is the only one I
> would quibble with order about. man should always always always be the
> first command anyone learns, IMO.)

man -k is apropos (or more correctly, man, when called as apropos, is man
-k - you'll note on morwong they're hardlinked.) Bonus - easy to spell and
type.

> links (with note of Esc for menu) instead of w3m

But w3m does graphics :P

> Add traceroute/mtr to the ping category?

Good idea.

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