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Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
> interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
> present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manual
> in early unix days) for individual commands, e.g.
> 
> man bash
> 
> which will describe in quite some detail how to use the shell and
> 
The bash man page is often rather too lengthy to find what one wants
easily.  For bash built-in commands it's often more useful to try
'help <command>' as you don't then have to wade through the *huge*
bash man page to find what you want.

For example 'help cd' gives a nice man page like summary of how to use
cd.

-- 
Chris Green
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Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-27 12:40 +0100
  Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 13:00 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-27 14:40 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 14:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-27 15:50 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-11-27 15:50 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-11-27 15:20 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 15:30 +0100
          help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-11-27 16:50 +0100
            Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-27 17:10 +0100
              Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 18:10 +0100
            Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 18:00 +0100
              Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-11-27 18:30 +0100
                Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 18:50 +0100
              Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 03:40 +0100
                Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-28 06:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Yassine Chaouche <a.chaouche@algerian-radio.dz> - 2024-11-27 16:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-27 17:20 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-27 15:50 +0100
  Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-11-28 05:20 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-28 09:40 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 16:00 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-28 16:20 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-11-28 16:20 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-11-29 19:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 16:20 +0100
          Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-12-02 04:00 +0100
            Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-02 13:00 +0100
  Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Michael Paoli <michael.paoli@berkeley.edu> - 2024-12-02 10:20 +0100

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