<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Here's a unix cheat sheet for shell commands:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/UNIX%20commands%20reference%20card.pdf">http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/UNIX%20commands%20reference%20card.pdf</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here's a comprehensive reference card for (essentially) all of bash, the standard linux shell</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/Bash%20Quick%20Reference.pdf">http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/Bash%20Quick%20Reference.pdf</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Finally, I highly recommend the linuxquestions.org wiki: <A href="http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki">http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brian "got my moko, missing my mojo" Fox</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Oct 25, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Jeff Andros wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN>On 10/25/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">7150</B> <<A href="mailto:linux.1@litenverden.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">linux.1@litenverden.com </A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <snip><SPAN class="q"><BR><BR>My question is, what does the tilde mean in the filename: ~/.ssh/config<BR><BR></SPAN><snip></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>in most *nix'es, "~" refers to the current user's home directory, "~joe" refers to a user name "joe"'s home directory <BR><BR>normally ~/.<something> refers to a user configuration directory (for instance, if you use pidgin, you have a ~/.purple directory where the settings for that application are kept so in this case ~/.ssh refers to the settings directory for your ssh client, and ~/.ssh/config refers to the config file therein <BR><BR>if you're curious to find out where that is located, use "cd ~" if you don't have your prompt set to show you the directory you're in, you can use "pwd" to see<BR><BR>on a related note, since we're probably going to have a lot of people coming in to this that are new to linux, does anyone know where there's a nice intro to shell commands tutorial we can reference? <BR clear="all"><SPAN class="sg"><BR>-- <BR>Jeff<BR>O|||||||O </SPAN><BR clear="all"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>