Dave Houghton wrote: > Hello everyone > > What are 'man.pages' >
man is short for manual. At the command prompt, type "man", followed by the name of a command you want to learn about. You will get the documentation for that command. Using man pages is a much better way to learn Linux than asking people on a mailing list. When you aren't sure about what command might do something, try "apropos" which gives you a list of commands that might be what you want. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apropos "copy files" cp (1) - copy files and directories cpio (1) - copy files to and from archives hcopy (1) - copy files from or to an HFS volume hpcopy (1) - copy files from an HFS+ volume install (1) - copy files and set attributes Next you'd run "man cp" to see if the command 'cp' is really what you want, and how to use it. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
