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Latest revision as of 23:29, 19 April 2017
Learning about Linux commands
- This is a continuous and very important activity
- Linux has a large and comprehensive documentation system called
man - 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
man –k <roughidea>
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
- What can you say about these commands?
