Hi Peter, Make that http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/40.17 to see all the available commands. When I tried the link below, it went straight to section 1, User Commands, but there are more than 15 sections of man pages in the Reference Manual Collection.
- Penny On 11/30/09 10:13, Penny.Cotten at Sun.COM wrote: > Hi Peter, > > You will undoubtedly get more responses, but in the meantime, go to > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/ to see all the available > commands. > > For example, the pwd command is found here: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/pwd-1?l=en&a=view&q=pwd > > If you know the command name and just want to view the information from > the prompt while you are working, type: > > man command > > For example: > > sr1-uego02-02{pennyc}2: man pwd > Reformatting page. Please Wait... done > > User Commands pwd(1) > > NAME > pwd - return working directory name > > SYNOPSIS > /usr/bin/pwd > > DESCRIPTION > The pwd utility writes an absolute path name of the current > working directory to standard output. > ... > > Please write me if you would like to know more about man pages, > docs.sun.com, and other documentation sites for OpenSolaris. > > Thanks, > > Penny > > > > > On 11/30/09 01:26, peter joseph wrote: >> Upon hearing all the noise Sun Micro has been making regarding >> OpenSolaris I decided to give it a try. SM promptly sent me a CD, >> free of charge, which I immediately installed on my laptop. >> Installation was as smooth as baby's but. Even though I have been >> using Fedora for a number of years, when it came to Solaris system >> command structure I was totally lost. Searching the system and the CD >> was of no help. Sun website, as usual, full of we-are-the-best stuff >> while short on useful info proved to be just that -- no useful info >> pertaining to commands. >> I could have been looking in wrong places, but any Linux website you >> go to will readily direct you to a ton of links dealing with this >> subject. >> Opensolaris seems to be a great os, but I have to ask; Who is behind >> this disjointed presentation of it? Why is it that everything that >> comes out of Sun Microsystems is so screwed up? Is it beyond their >> capability to put together a simple command list? If so, use the >> common Unix-based commands rather than some exotic commands conjured >> up by some Debian genius. >> It's too bad. I do admit, it has a potential, nevertheless, not being >> able to work with it I had to dump it. >> Hopefully, Oracle will clean the house... > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org
