I was wondering if anyone knows a site(s) where I can get a list of linux commands and what the linux commands do specificly

I'd suggest buying o'really 's book "Linux in a nutshell", or looking online for some manuals, look at linuxnewbie

I dont want to promote warez but get on kazaa and search for linux documents, i have found every tutorial on kazaa that i have ever needed, they can get rather big but if u have a good connection they arent nothing to worry about and it beats browsing the web up and down and buy stuff, heh.

A real easy starter would be Linux for dummies, it even has a cheat sheet with a bunch of the commands. Also try these sites

http://www.linuxnewbie.com

http://www.redhat.com

http://www.linux.org

http://help.linuxbin.com/manreader.php3?goto=index-man1.html

any other questions, please feel free to visit me all alone here...

Thanks everyone! I will try all of those sites and look at the books too. And, I am sure that I will have plenty of questions after I do!

You should read post that are already here. I posted a nice tutorial from IBM you can sign up for, check it out its pretty damn good if you have a shell to work with.
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/ed...&l=014,t=gr

just like hkzknight said...linux for dummies is a good book. it also comes with RedHat....so get it from the library.

Okay, my first question. I am doing the tutorial that sinetific gave the link for and it is talking about shells. I don't have linux on my computer, but if I use my Microsoft telnet, can I still do it? Would that be a shell? And if it is, then does anybody know if it is a bash? This is probably a stupid question, but I really don't know anything about any of this yet.

telnet is just like a portal to a shell on a computer. You can telnet to DOS shells and to other services computers run. But telnet by itself wont do anything. You can do a search for places that offer free shells and that will give you a little bit of insight into a *nix machine. Most of these are bash shells unless you specify otherwise. Bash shell is default on most *nix machines. and telnet by itself is definately not a bash shell.

It depends what you want to do... Reasons and what shell do you need, or do you want many shells.

The only reason I want a shell right now is to do that tutorial. I don't think I would need more than one shell, but I could be wrong.

you only need one. Do a search for free shells on google. I'd give you an account on my box but i dont really know you.

I am going to do the search. And, I don't expect you to do that for me, but I appreciate the thought! I would probably mess something up anyway!

girlygirl, i admire the fact that you'd like to learn more about nix, therefore my resources are at your disposal, if you need anything feel free to contact me via AIM or Email.

Gizmo's "admires" any *nix chick. He keeps hoping to find a hacker chick as good looking as the one in the movie "Hackers".

/me whistles and walks away