Useful Commands
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Welcome to the Useful Commands
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Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Common Commands
- 2.1 Basic Commands on Your system
- 2.2 For People New to Both Ghost/FreeBSD and UNIX
- 2.3 Short Comparison Linux and BSD
- 2.4 UNIX Command Summary
- 2.5 An introduction to Regular Expressions
- 2.6 A concise reference of vi commands
- 2.7 FreeBSD Command Reference
- 2.8 Useful Overview
- 2.9 FreeBSD Display Information About The System Hardware
- 2.10 FREEBSD Man Pages
- 3 Selected helpful 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
Basic Commands on Your system
See also in In your directories
- /usr/bin/ /usr/sbin/ useful applications for your cli,
- /bin/ and /sbin/ system tools.
For People New to Both Ghost/FreeBSD and UNIX
Short Comparison Linux and BSD
UNIX Command Summary
An introduction to Regular Expressions
A concise reference of vi commands
FreeBSD Command Reference
AfNOG If this list is up to date we have to check.
Useful Overview
FreeBSD Display Information About The System Hardware
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 |
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| sudo pkg info os-generic-userland | grep Version | Shows what version of GhostBSD I am running | ericbsd on the forum |
| neofetch | shows your installed version with a beastie logo Fast, highly customizable system info script. This script gathers info about your system and prints it to the terminal next to an image, your distro's logo or any ascii art of your choice! |
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch |
| sysctl kern.osreldate | Shows the same result as uname -U | sysctl(8) |
| uname -U | you get: 1201500 or higher; part 1201 comes from FreeBSD-version 12.01 and 500 seems to bee the level of contribs. | see also ericbsd; nixCraft Linux and Unix tutorials for new and seasoned sysadmin |
| OpenRC | command scripts for auto-reboot and daemon startup
Files /etc/rc /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local /etc/rc.d/ /etc/rc.firewall /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.shutdown /etc/rc.subr /var/run/dmesg.boot |
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| dmesg | Discover what hardware was detected by the kernel and other system related information. |
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| dmesg | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| pciconf -l -cv | Show PCI devices. |
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| scanimage -L | Shows if the scanner is connected and seen |  
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| sysctl hw.realmem | Display hardware memory. |
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| sysctl dev | less | Display configured devices. | |
| sysctl hw.model | Display CPU model. |
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| sysctl hw.machine_arch | Display CPU Architecture |
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| sysctl hw.ncpu | Display number of CPUs. |
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| uname -vm | Get release version information. |
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| uname -a | Get release version and user.pc information |
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| 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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