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Man pages
Man pages are great resources of information. The man pages that come with OpenBSD are especially of use because of their excellent quality.

Useful to beginners:

help(1) - help for new users and administrators
hier(7) - layout of the OpenBSD directory structure
afterboot(8) - things to check after the first complete boot
man(1) - display manual pages
ls(1) - list directory contents
less(1) - view text files
kill(1) - terminate or signal a process
ps(1) - show process status
top(1) - display and refresh information about the (top) CPU processes
ftp(1) - FTP program (client)
lynx(1) - Text-based webbrowser

Useful to intermediates:

afterboot(8) - things to check after the first complete boot
netstat(1) - show network status
dmesg(8) - display the system message buffer
find(1) - walk a file hierarchy
locate(1) - find filenames quickly
sh(1) - public domain Bourne shell
grep(1) - search for patterns in files
mount(8) - mount file systems
df(1) - display free disk space
du(1) - display disk usage statistics

Useful to more advanced users:

route(8) - manually manipulate the routing tables
ifconfig(8) - configure network interface parameters
fstab(5) - static information about the filesystems
xargs(1) - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
awk(1) - pattern-directed scanning and processing language
dd(1) - convert and copy a file
strings(1) - print the strings of printable characters in files
options(4) - miscellaneous kernel configuration options