You might want to check out linuxnewbie.org. It has a lot of newbie-oriented howtos. It's not as fine granularity as manpages, but will help with a lot of basic tasks, and has some great forums.
I would also suggest the book "Linux in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly. This is actually very close to what you are looking for from the man pages. Nathan On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:41 am, john smith wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is > there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the > correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to > you unix gurus out there but if I wanted to do something and I do a "man" > something, I get arcane (at least for me) explanations of how to use > different options/parameters of that something but not giving me a simple > example on how to do the command with the options I want correctly and I'd > spend a lot of time figuring out the correct syntax instead of spending > time with something else. it would certainly be nice for the "man" pages to > include a simple example of a correct command's syntax and how to add > options etc.. along with the lengthy explanation of all of the available > commands options. might not be useful to you gurus out there but it > certainly will help newbies to make the learning curve a little easier? > > 'nuff said... > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
