On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 08:54:04AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 23Dec2014 18:20, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>Going off on a tangent here, so I'm deliberately splitting a thread...
>
>On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 10:38 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>Run the command:
>> man 8 mount
>>and see the types available for "-t" option.
>>
>>The "general" part of this advice is that: you're using the
"mount"
>>command, so read the "mount" manual entry!
>>
>>("mount" is an administrative command, so it is in section 8, not
>>section 1.)
>
>I've never come to grips with multiple docs for man, depending on such
>things as section numbers. And I see no difference in output between
>"man 8 mount" or "man mount" Granted I haven't gone the
whole way
>through, but I've already gone deep into them, and not seen anything.
Well, "man 2 mount" details the OS system call, very different in usage from
the command line.
If you set the environment variable
export MANOPT="-a"
or simply use that option with the man command, you'll get all
available instances of 'man foo', one after the other.
I don't understand why that's not the Fedora default; it is on my
systems. I put it in /etc/profile.d/bash.sh along with some other
niceties that make Linux more friendly.
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad(a)datix.us
www.datix.us
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny,
not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.