I've found a couple of useful books. The best is "Running Linux, 3rd Edition" from O'Reilly. Not quite so useful (because of 'man' and 'info') is "Linux in a NutShell, 2nd Edition", also from O'Reilly. These two book are useful from the command line only. The first book gives a good understanding of Linux, it's file structure, permissions schema, major and minor numbering scheme, and a ton more. Aside from the SuSE reference book that comes with the distro I have learned the most about Linux from it.

I've found another excellent source of info is the Linux Documentation Project, and their list of "How-to"s.

However, about the only uses for the commandline I have are 'updatedb', 'locate', 'ls', 'vdir' and the occassional 'cat'. I spend 99% of my time in the KDE desktop where my most useful skill is clicking the mouse. ;-)

Thanks for the cudo's Mike, but I deserve no credit as a 'source of references'. The credit goes to Google.
JLK



>Where is the pied piper now ? Really wish I new, Its not the linux for dummies, that not what its suppose to be, .. Running linux, is good...
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>What is your favorite book on the subject ? have one ?
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>Bob Lee
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>>>While I like / or love the command line, somtimes getting to understand the
>file stru of the linux file system is a bit daunting i.e. there is no program files, folder. there is no /settings folder,
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>>>after a while you get it knowing what the /usr is for the /etc is for and and your personal directory is for.
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>>>but this little utility ported from DOS, at least for me comes in handy, (might be me, but I have fond memorys of my DOS days,)
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>>>http://www.unixtree.org/
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>>>Bob Lee
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>>Bob,
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>>I agree. DOS wasn't that bad once you got a grasp of the "verb-noun" (action-object) concept.
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>>I think someone could make a good career out of being the "Pied Piper" of Linux...leading Windows users to the Wonderful World of Linux through clearly written articles that explain the Linux environment using the Windows concepts and framework, i.e., "the BIN folder is equivalent to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM", explanations of where the startup files are located, the general concepts of program installation, etc.
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>>What helped me a lot was after installing SAMBA, I could look at my Linux disk from the Windows Explorer and open the tree nodes to see what type of files are placed in what folder.
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>>Mike Copeland
>>Genesis Group Software