On 02/03/2011 12:59 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: <> > The man page for bash is the worst one of all! not really. using '/' to look for what you want to know about makes it very informative. at least for me. maybe not for some who are not used to man pages. > I use man all the time for all kinds of commands, but anything to > do with bash directs you to this bash page, actually, only 6; sh(1), ksh(1), csh(1), emacs(1), vi(1), readline(3) of which, 'sh(1)' kicks back to 'man bash'. while ksh(1) and csh(1) do have one hell of a lot more 'see also'. first 4 'see also' are manuals and references for readings outside of man. > meaning you have to pore over hundreds of separate entries in the > vain hope of finding something relevant to your query. only if i do not comprehend what i am reading in said man page. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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