On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 09:20:13AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 23Dec2014 06:53, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>On 12/23/2014 03:02 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>On 12/23/14 15:50, Tim wrote:
>>>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.
>>But you do see a difference between
>>
>>man 8 mount and
>>man 2 mount
>>
>>Yes?
>>
>I see the difference, but as usual with most man pages, you almost have
>to know the syntacs you are looking for.. I always look for examples ,
>and never find the one that applies to my situation. And I've looked at
>man pages for 30 years..
You're aware of "man -k"?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au>
Nope. First, you need to learn how to use vi, the editor from hell
(vi vi vi -- the number of the beast), ...
- Dan Sorenson, DoD#1066, <z1dan(a)exnet.iastate.edu>
Nope. The authors of vi explicitly disclaimed that vi means six.
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