List of Useful Terminal Commands for LinuxCNC

Greetings All,

I've been searching for a list of common commands for working within LinuxCNC without success.

There are many sites that have the usual Debian commands such as cp, ls -l, pwd, etc. but I'm looking for ones that are more useful for people trying to setup and query their LinuxCNC systems. These would include things like uname, ip -a, and others to tell me what versions of Debian and LinuxCNC and kernel I'm running and tools to determine details about the hardware involved in controlling a CNC like the network interfaces, etc.

It's likely I just haven't formulated the correct search terms to find such a list and would appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Jay

Here is a link to HAL commands mentioned by tommylight : linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/hal/basic-hal.html

Maybe have a look there while he's having coffee

Man, there is a whole mountain of commands. You'll have to look for the commands you need for each task, otherwise we would have to provide you with the complete debian manual. BTW, you should look at the debian reference and other debian documentation:

www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/
debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/

You can get a mini-manual about every and each installed command with this command:

man (command-name)

To put it even more plainly: to get help about "grep", you do

man grep

To see wich distro you have installed -> lsb_release -d
To see kernel version -> uname -r
To see all kernel info: -> uname -a
Info about PCI devices -> lspci
Info about CPUs -> lscpu
Info about USB devices -> lsusb

And so on.

You don't need to know all commands, just the ones you feel you need. Your knowledge will increase wit time. Take it easy. If you want to become more proficient, see the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, you'll see lots of useful examples there, here is the URL

tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/