Archive for December 19th, 2008

Commanding Linux

Grandad December 19th, 2008

Are there any Linux nerds out there?

The reason I ask is that I found a PC or something on The Other Fella’s laptop.

I came down this morning and found that he had left it on all night and I could run all his programmes.  One of them was a little program called Putty.  I assumed it was something to do with holding Windows together, but it just displayed little things like ‘[root@server /] #’. 

Now I haven’t a clue what it was, but I tried typing in various things like ‘who are you’, and it told me it was ‘root pts/0’ which was very helpful!

I tried typing ‘what are you’ but it started to get violent.  It said ‘-bash: what: command not found’

Then it occurred to me to try some of those Linuxey things, so I tried CHMOD.  That seemed to do something because streams of letters and words shot up the screen.

I played with CHMOD for a while, but it’s a bit boring.

I tried CHOWN.

That did strange things but that was boring too, and anyway, I had to go out to meet someone.

They were the only two things I had seen The Other Fella use, so does anyone know any interesting things I could try out?

I wonder if there are any games on it?