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Welcome to the Useful Commands

Introduction

There are a lot of useful commands for GhostBSD. Most of them are written for FreeBSD and you can find them easy. They work also for GhostBSD. But some are hidden in the deep web. You get them from hints in different forums or on Telegram. The first we will connect to this page and the last we will collect on this page.

Common Commands

For People New to Both Ghost/FreeBSD and UNIX

from Annelise Anderson

Short Comparison Linux and BSD

Common Commands

FreeBSD Command Reference

AfNOG If this list is up to date we have to check.

Useful Overview

US Webmaster

FreeBSD Display Information About The System Hardware

nixCraft

FREEBSD Man Pages

This page gives an overview about all commands and there man pages (12,652 Total Pages): The UNIX and Linux Forums

Selected helpful Commands

Command	Abstract	Addition or Link
dmesg	Discover what hardware was detected by the kernel and other system related information.
grep usb	Show USB devices.
kldstat	List all modules currently loaded in the kernel.
gpart	The gpart utility is used to partition GEOM providers, normally disks
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da5s1 /mnt	mount USB stick, the numbers 5 and 1 are exables, you have to get them with gpart for your system
ntfs-3g /dev/daxsy /mnt	mount NTFS device
pciconf -lv	Output to identify your video card	Fred Finster 10.01.2020 on Telegram, see also
pciconf -l -cv	Show PCI devices.
scanimage -L	Shows if the scanner is connected and seen
sysctl hw.realmem	Display hardware memory.
sysctl dev | less	Display configured devices.
sysctl hw.model	Display CPU model.
sysctl hw.machine_arch	Display CPU Architecture
sysctl hw.ncpu	Display number of CPUs.
uname -vm	Get release version information.
uname -a	Get release version and user.pc information
freebsd-version	print the version and patch level of the installed base system: FreeBSD, Info is located /bin/freebsd-version on your system
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