OK Try th comman apropos at the prompt, it gives you a list of man pages to look through that contain reference to parameters that you give the command
ie > apropos bash Gives a huge list!! Hope this helps si -----Original Message----- From: Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:48:08 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] renaming large number of files. > "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" wrote: > > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > > > That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-) > > [I used to love DOS batch files!] > > > > As I have heard and felt Linux contains a "miriade"/"pletora" of commands > > and I would like to find sources/resources for a better understanding of > > this system... and what is quite bad... not all of them have a man page > > (or info page) to help us! (as a volunteer translator/reviewer at ldp-br > > [man pages] I could feel that!). > > > > But then again...it's hard to find a 'command' you've never heard of! > > > > But I'd better take your suggestion as a smooth (?) start! > > > > tks > > > > []s Ricardo Castanho > > You may have read this, and since you are coming from from the DOS > world, the DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO may prove helpful. > > Larry > > > > >Read at > > >http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html > > > > > >and find all about linux resources included in bash. > > > > > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) > > >> "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Win a ski trip! http://www.nowcode.com/register.asp?affiliate=1net2phone3a
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