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= Learning about Linux commands =

* This is a continuous and very important activity
* Linux has a large and comprehensive documentation system called <code>man</code>
* Linux manual pages are referred to as man pages.
* To open the man page for a particular command, you just need to type man followed by the name of the command you are interested in.
* To browse through a man page, use the up,down,pgup and pgn keys.
* To close (quit) the man page simply hit the q key on your keyboard.
* If you do not know the specific name of a command to use for a particular job, you can search using <code>man –k <roughidea></code>
followed by the type of thing you are trying to do. An example of this is in exercise 1-3, part c).

==Exercise ==

* Look up the manual information for the ls command by typing the following in a terminal:
man echo
man mkdir

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Rf at 22:29, 19 April 2017

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Rf: Created page with "= Learning about Linux commands = * This is a continuous and very important activity * Linux has a large and comprehensive documentation system called `man` * Linu..."