Just type
man ping
to get the manual page on the ping command. You can also do
man man
to get the manual page about how to use the man command :) One handy one is
man -k firewall
The -k tells man you want all pages with a certain keyword. In my
example I used firewall. So that would give all the pages it knows of
related to firewall. Note that man includes developer documentation so
you can end up down in the basement with the plumbing pretty quick.
Hope this helps.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
hmm, man help or help man?
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From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: What is terminal?
This might have already been said but there is some measure of manuals
built in in the "man" command. So you say "man cd" to read about how to
use the cd command to change directories or "man ls" to learn about
listing files. Learning unix is probably beyond the scope of this
mailing list though. Here is nice basics tutorial called Learn Unix in
10 Minutes:
http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
Here is another one:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html
Lots of books out there as well if you want to dive deeper. Only
annoying bit is there are a lot of Unix flavors. Sort of like different
dialects of English. Mostly similar but not the same. That means
commands for Linux might not work perfectly or without modification on
Solaris or MacOSX etc.
CB
Orin wrote:
Hmm. I sum day want to be able to run my digital life from the prompt
and be leet like that. Manuals, anyone?
On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Ryan Dour wrote:
Ah, let me start by saying its the other whole half of your Mac you
didn't know you had. That is your portal to the BSD underpinnings of
Mac OS X. In other words, its Mac OS X's command line interface. This
interface isn't going to be something nearly as easy to use as your
other Mac applications. Simply, you need to learn how to use UNIX
command line concepts to understand the expanse in which you have
entered.
This is like discovering there is actually an engine under that shiny
hood of a car. If you learn about it, you become the true master of
your machine. If you learn it at a professional level, you've got a
career in server administration on your hands. It is a tool to do
something as simple as renaming and moving files. Or, it could be
used to pretty much run your whole digital life at the prompt. It is
up to you.
Good luck,
Ryan
On Feb 17, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Bruins Fan wrote:
Hi Everyone,
What is terminal and how does it work?
Thanks, Olivia
