Man pages
Man pages are great resources of information. The man pages that come with OpenBSD are especially of use because of their excellent quality.
Useful to beginners:
- help(1) – help for new users and administrators
- hier(7) – layout of the OpenBSD directory structure
- afterboot(8) – things to check after the first complete boot
- man(1) – display manual pages
- ls(1) – list directory contents
- less(1) – view text files
- kill(1) – terminate or signal a process
- ps(1) – show process status
- top(1) – display and refresh information about the (top) CPU processes
- ftp(1) – FTP program (client)
- lynx(1) – Text-based webbrowser
Useful to intermediates:
- afterboot(8) – things to check after the first complete boot
- netstat(1) – show network status
- dmesg(8) – display the system message buffer
- find(1) – walk a file hierarchy
- locate(1) – find filenames quickly
- sh(1) – public domain Bourne shell
- grep(1) – search for patterns in files
- mount(8) – mount file systems
- df(1) – display free disk space
- du(1) – display disk usage statistics
Useful to more advanced users:
- route(8) – manually manipulate the routing tables
- ifconfig(8) – configure network interface parameters
- fstab(5) – static information about the filesystems
- xargs(1) – construct argument list(s) and execute utility
- awk(1) – pattern-directed scanning and processing language
- dd(1) – convert and copy a file
- strings(1) – print the strings of printable characters in files
- options(4) – miscellaneous kernel configuration options
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