Re: basic Unix question ???

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Janet Linsy wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions. First, how to find out
> information about my unix box, like version, etc.

uname -a

>
> In my box, I can use hostname to get the machine name.
> I remember there is a command called version, but I
> got "Ksh: version: not found." Any other useful
> commands to know about my machine?

anything in /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin

man man
man -k some_keyword_you_are_looking_for

>
> Actually when I use top, it also returns "ksh: top:
> not found." My second question is where does ksh
> usually reside, which value should I set for PATH.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Janet
>
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