Don't forget there's also the info command which often has more approachable information than the man command. On 02/03/13 13:01, Hart Larry wrote: > Well Kyle, I think even for folks such as Karen-and-myself, moving from > dos to Linux, Linux man-pages are written in such a way that not only > listening with speech, but without a tecnical background, they are hard > to understand. > I did write Karen off list-and-suggest it would be instructive to show > side-by-side a DOS help with a Linux man-page of a similar command. > Maybe somewhere there are more discriptive beginner man-pages which we > could dropin to a system, which would make learning easier. > As an example, here is a Debian man for ren "rename" > RENAME(1) Perl Programmers Reference > Guide RENAME(1) > > NAME > rename - renames multiple files > > SYNOPSIS > rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ] > > DESCRIPTION > "rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule > specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argument > is a Perl expression which is expected to modify the $_ string in > Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. > If a given filename is not modified by the expression, it will > not be renamed. If no filenames are given on the > command line, filenames will be read via standard input. > > For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the > extension, you might say > > rename 's/\.bak$//' *.bak > > To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use > > rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' * > > OPTIONS > -v, --verbose > Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed. > > -n, --no-act > No Action: show what files would have been renamed. > > -f, --force > Force: overwrite existing files. > > ENVIRONMENT > No environment variables are used. > > AUTHOR > Larry Wall > > SEE ALSO > mv(1), perl(1) > > DIAGNOSTICS > If you give an invalid Perl expression you'll get a syntax error. > > BUGS > The original "rename" did not check for the existence of target > filenames, so had to be used with care. I hope I've > fixed that (Robin Barker). > Back again live, Kyle, do you think some1 with little Linux experience, > wanting to learn, can make sense of that? > I tried going in DOSemu to find a similar help, but cannot get "help > ren" to work. Thanks for listening > Hart > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list