Sunday, January 18, 2009

52in09 Week 2: man

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2 comments:

chux0r said...

nice intro to man!

For completeness' sake, I would like to point out that not all Unix and Unix-like systems paging programs will recognize the arrow keys for navigating by default. Usually the most you can bank on will be having "h j k & l" keys to navigate left, down, up, and right, respectively. (Pageup, space, & pagedn will work too for paging up & down).

Enough nitpicking - thanks for your article, man is important to any Unix geek, new or seasoned!

TheFrank said...

Always useful to remember how to convert a manpage to text. This is done using the "col" command:

man manpage | col -b

Why? Well...maybe you want to print a manpage. OR..as I've found it useful is in the command-line portion of webmin. Regular manpages don't translate very well at all without the text conversion.