Understanding man pages in Linux
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In this lesson, you will learn about man. Man is a system that provides information about all of the commands in Linux, as well as many other items.
So, that makes man the best source to get extensive usage information. When working with man you need to know about sections. The sections define the type of items that are documented in man. Let me open a man page so that I can tell you about it.
man man:
So, Man man common is showing us the man page of the man command. In a man command, you can easily search for text using /
Many man pages have examples as well, and these examples are very useful because if you have a good example then you don't have to figure it out for yourself. Now the examples exist especially in man pages of more complicated commands. Let me show you an example.
The thing that is useful to know before you even get started with man pages is that you can search or text using slice. We have already seen that in the two previous demos. So, just type a slice before about anything and it'll search for anything. Before we get to the next lesson, let me open a man page again to talk about the basic elements that you will typically see in man pages.
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