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Jack H

2.4 INTERMEDIATE CONCEPTS

Above the basic features of the Linux system are a number of more advanced features and

commands. Some of these are listed below.

pine a simple interface for mail usage

mail a somewhat bothersome mail tool (see pine). man func bring up a manual page for ’func’

man -k stringbrings up information on ’string’

tar -xvf file.tar extract files from an archive file ’file.tar’

tar cvf - files > file.tar put ’files’ into an archive file ’file.tar’