A lot of the questions posted in this group could be avoided if people would
read man pages. And yes I understand that it is mostly newbies group. This is
why I like to tell people how to use man pages.
Man page, from word man(uale).
>From command prompt type word man followed by command you are interesting in.
For exemplae:
#man ls
will give you following information:
LS(1) User Commands LS(1)
NAME
ls - list directory contents
SYNOPSIS
ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
-a, --all
do not hide entries starting with .
-A, --almost-all
do not list implied . and ..
--author
print the author of each file
-b, --escape
print octal escapes for nongraphic characters
--block-size=SIZE
use SIZE-byte blocks
-B, --ignore-backups
do not list implied entries ending with ~
-c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last modification of
file status information) with -l: show ctime and sort by name
otherwise: sort by ctime
-C list entries by columns
--color[=WHEN]
control whether color is used to distinguish file types. WHEN
may be ‘never', ‘always', or ‘auto'
-d, --directory
list directory entries instead of contents, and do not derefer‐
ence symbolic links
-D, --dired
generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode
-f do not sort, enable -aU, disable -lst
-F, --classify
append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries
--format=WORD
lines 1-58
press q to quit from man page and arrow up down to scroll.
Second way to get man is to go to Konqueror and type in address bar:
man:/comman_you_interested_in
Notice single / after man:
As a home work go and try to find what "man -k "
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