# Terminal Word game :) A great intro to the terminal **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux lounge\ **Created:** [July 28, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636 "2019-07-28T21:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ringo](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/ringo/32/66182_2.png) [@ringo](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/1 "2019-07-28T21:22:32Z")
## Let us play a game! - In this game should have contain a terminal command which exist in the terminal. - the next command should start with the last letter of command in previous post. - Together with the command you should give information the meaning of the comman. - Feel free to post but keep topic incheck 🙂 First command : Pacman - Package manager to install packages ( next is N 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![grenouille](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/grenouille/32/116_2.png) [@grenouille](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/grenouille)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/2 "2019-07-28T21:29:07Z")
netstat – shows network connections and other similar goodies. ---
**Author:** ![bkaplan](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/bkaplan/32/5979_2.png) [@bkaplan](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/bkaplan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/3 "2019-07-28T21:31:04Z")
top - display Linux processes ---
**Author:** ![Zerqz](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/zerqz/32/524_2.png) [@Zerqz](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Zerqz)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/4 "2019-07-28T22:06:22Z")
pikaur - AUR & pacman helper ---
**Author:** ![Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/technomancer/32/659_2.png) [@Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Technomancer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/5 "2019-07-28T22:09:08Z")
rsync - file syncronization across systems ---
**Author:** ![bkaplan](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/bkaplan/32/5979_2.png) [@bkaplan](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/bkaplan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/6 "2019-07-28T22:14:00Z")
cmake - CMake Command-Line Reference (project, build, etc. management) ---
**Author:** ![Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/technomancer/32/659_2.png) [@Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Technomancer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/7 "2019-07-28T22:18:49Z")
env - lists environment variables ---
**Author:** ![Pudge](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/pudge/32/17155_2.png) [@Pudge](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Pudge)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/8 "2019-07-28T23:28:52Z")
vdir - Same as **ls -l -b**. Verbosely list directory contents. ---
**Author:** ![Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/technomancer/32/659_2.png) [@Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Technomancer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/9 "2019-07-28T23:42:39Z")
rm - removes specified files ---
**Author:** ![manuel](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/manuel/32/396_2.png) [@manuel](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/manuel)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/10 "2019-07-29T05:45:08Z")
make - a build automation tool ---
**Author:** ![Tiedemann](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/tiedemann/32/377_2.png) [@Tiedemann](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Tiedemann)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/11 "2019-07-29T10:05:39Z")
ex - text editor ---
**Author:** ![bkaplan](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/bkaplan/32/5979_2.png) [@bkaplan](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/bkaplan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/12 "2019-07-29T10:48:34Z")
xkill - kill a client by its X resource ---
**Author:** ![Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/technomancer/32/659_2.png) [@Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Technomancer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/13 "2019-07-29T12:01:57Z")
ls - list directory contents ---
**Author:** ![leonc](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@leonc](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/leonc)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/14 "2019-07-29T12:14:27Z")
stat - displays status of file ---
**Author:** ![Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/technomancer/32/659_2.png) [@Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Technomancer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/15 "2019-07-29T12:15:44Z")
tail - show last 10 lines of a file ---
**Author:** ![Bryanpwo](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/bryanpwo/32/130600_2.png) [@Bryanpwo](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Bryanpwo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/16 "2019-07-29T12:22:26Z")
Pinned globally on July 29, 2019, 12:22pm UTC ---
**Author:** ![zwygi49](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/zwygi49/32/682_2.png) [@zwygi49](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/zwygi49)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/17 "2019-07-29T12:42:36Z")
sudo dmesg … allow check for possible error messages during boot process Sorry… didn’t match the last letter of the previous post… loadkeys to loar new keyboard layout from terminal e.g. “loadkeys de\_CH-latin1” for Swiss German keyboard layout ---
**Author:** ![ringo](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/ringo/32/66182_2.png) [@ringo](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/18 "2019-07-29T14:48:46Z")
slabtop - display kernel slab cache information in real time ---
**Author:** ![manuel](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/manuel/32/396_2.png) [@manuel](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/manuel)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/19 "2019-07-29T15:03:11Z")
pacman - the ultimate package manager in EndeavourOS ---
**Author:** ![Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/technomancer/32/659_2.png) [@Technomancer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Technomancer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636/20 "2019-07-29T21:39:39Z")
nano - a text editor that I consider to be more user friendly than vim [Next page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/terminal-word-game-a-great-intro-to-the-terminal/636.md?page=2)