David Wright wrote:
> Funnily enough, I'd never even thought about page numbering in
> connection with man pages. But I notice now that the page contents
> of my Letter PDF and Debian's A4 version are identical, and the
> footers on the A4 are very high, so I'm guessing that the document
> was o
>From most, shells, e.g. bash, dash, most or all POSIX shells, you can type:
type name_of_command
And it'll generally tell you what/where that command comes from, or if
it's an alias, etc.
E.g. from either bash or dash:
$ type cd
cd is a shell builtin
$
So then you could look it up in the relevant
On Sat 30 Nov 2024 at 22:10:32 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 30/11/2024 01:29, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 21:52:05 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
> > > > $ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
> > >
> > > /usr/share/doc/bash-doc
On 30/11/2024 01:29, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 21:52:05 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
$ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bashref.pdf
¹ With Letter size in xpdf, I press 3
On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 21:52:05 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
> >$ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
>
> What is the point in converting man when the same content is available
> as texinfo source? Moreover, PDF file is ready to use:
>
> /usr/share/do
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 04:12:05PM CET, Richard Owlett
said:
> On 11/28/24 8:52 AM, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
> > > $ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
> >
> > What is the point in converting man when the same content is available
> > as texinfo source
On 11/28/24 8:52 AM, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
$ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
What is the point in converting man when the same content is available
as texinfo source? Moreover, PDF file is ready to use:
/usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.html
/usr/sha
On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
$ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
What is the point in converting man when the same content is available
as texinfo source? Moreover, PDF file is ready to use:
/usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.html
/usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf
/usr/share/doc/b
On 11/27/24 10:13 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 27 Nov 2024 at 05:38:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to
look up fine details of a specific commands.
I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having
spaces in
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:34:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
> > recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
> > gap separating man and info.
>
> Does it affect "ma
On Wed 27 Nov 2024 at 05:38:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to
> look up fine details of a specific commands.
>
> I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having
> spaces in it's name. Of course the system res
On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
gap separating man and info.
Does it affect "man" when called in a terminal application (so usually
"less" is used as a pa
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:24:25PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend fo
On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both.
> [help and man]
>> There's also 'info foo', which for some values
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > One of the items on the list, under the characteristics of a
> > "knowledgeable user", is the entry:
> >
> > * has learned that learn doesn't help
> >
> > I have never
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> > And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both.
[help and man]
>
> There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more
> helpful than either of the
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> One of the items on the list, under the characteristics of a
> "knowledgeable user", is the entry:
>
> * has learned that learn doesn't help
>
> I have never managed to find out what 'learn' is supposed to have been.
> No Linux or othe
Eric S Fraga wrote:
> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
> interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
> present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manua
On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
>> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
>> interaction with the Internet at all), the ma
Le 11/27/24 à 15:18, Eric S Fraga a écrit :
[...] the man command is available to
present the manual pages
There are also the fine info pages for most gnu software,
notably the coreutils,
and the /usr/share/doc directory for most other software.
Best,
--
yassine -- sysadm
+213-779 06 06 23
h
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:55:10 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> First: cd is not a command, it is a shell builtin
> (this is subtle, but important).
It's both. You can even call it a "builtin command".
> Second: even if cd were a "command", the splitting
> of args at whitespace (among *a lot*
On 11/27/24 7:36 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark folder for
"Debian Wikis". The first occupant is https://mywiki.wooledge.org .
Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *h
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:36:44 +0100
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark
> > folder for "Debian Wikis". The first occupant
> > is https://mywiki.wooledge.org .
>
> Greg's wiki i
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
> interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
> present the manual pages (dat
And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manual
in early unix days) for ind
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark folder for
> "Debian Wikis". The first occupant is https://mywiki.wooledge.org .
Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *him* for it.
> I've been a computer *user* fo
On 11/27/24 5:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:38:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look
up fine details of a specific commands.
I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having space
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:38:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look
> up fine details of a specific commands.
>
> I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having spaces in
> it's name. Of course the system r
I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to
look up fine details of a specific commands.
I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having spaces
in it's name. Of course the system responded
> bash: cd: too many arguments
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