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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Daniel Moore <ant@softhome.net>
  Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:32:48 +1000

Re: basic commands

Hi,

At 06:36 PM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah but you can't "man" something before you know what the something is.
Cach
>22!

Well, 

  man -k sex

returns:

>dos, xdos, dosexec, dosdebug (1) - run MS-DOS and MS-DOS programs under Linux
>XGraphicsExposeEvent, XNoExposeEvent (3x) - GraphicsExpose and NoExpose event
> structures
>XSetArcMode, XSetSubwindowMode, XSetGraphicsExposure (3x) - GC convenience 
>routines
>XtGetClassExtension (3x) - locate a class extension record

Which just shows how good Linux is, in that it figured out that exposing is
required for sex :-)

However, the point is that you can simply give a keywork, and man -k will
try to find all manual pages with that word in them.

>Daniel.
>
>Martin Sandiford wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Galdes writes:
>>
>>     Andrew> can anyone give ma a URL for basic Linux comands. I need
>>     Andrew> things like finding the disk space free, copying files etc.
>>
>> If you already have a running Linux system, you can use the "man"
>> command to find out various things.
>>
>> For example, "man -k copy", which searches for the keyword "copy" in man
>> page titles shows me (amongst other things):
>>
>> cp (1)               - copy files and directories
>>
>> "man -k usage" shows me:
>>
>> du (1)               - estimate file space usage
>>
>> If you really are looking for a web page, most of the file utilities
>> under Linux are part of the GNU project - home page is at
>> http://www.gnu.org
>>
>> Software info is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html
>> Look for "Fileutils".
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
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Regards
-------
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Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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