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Thursday, January 9, 2014

apropos command

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It helps to find commands which their descriptions contain a specified word. Displays the name of the command and the first line of the description.

apropos find
Find commands with descriptions that include the word find.

apropos find | less
Find commands with descriptions that include the word find and use less to display the results so you can scroll up or down through them.

du command

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Displays usage in kilobytes for contents of the current directory or for a specified file or directory.

du /root
Shows how much disk space is used by the /root directory.