Ray Parrish wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to > use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man > and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper > syntax for many of the commands due to very sketchy documentation. > > I'm winding up trying some commands over and over again, as I attempt to > discover the apparently secret twists to the syntax required to get a > command to do it's thing. After many tries I sometimes finally get it > right, and there is no mention in the docs of the requirement for the > use of specific syntax options I eventually discover are required to use > a command. > > I consider this a bug in the documentation, and think it would be nice > if the documentation writers would add a --verbose --verbose switch to > their writing behaviors when producing man pages.
There are literally hundreds of books available on Unix use, programming, and shell scripting. They fill this niche, not manual pages. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
