Re: top & man pages

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Author: stu
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Subject: Re: top & man pages
On Monday 03 July 2006 22:59, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:21 -0700, betty wrote:
> > wow the 'top' command is pretty cool.
>
> ----
> does your husband know what a geek you've become?
> ----
>
> > there is so much stuff in the man pages, is there a table of contents???
> > then i can print out the toc and look for stuff of interest.
>
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> most man pages don't have such a thing - there really isn't a 'standard'
> methodology for that.
>
> The sheer volume of documentation is large...
>
> ls -l /usr/share/man/man5
> ls -l /usr/share/man/man8
> ls -l /usr/share/doc
>
> I think you will appreciate how much documentation is lying around
>
> Craig


    Try "man man" perhaps? That might give you an idea how to navigate the pages.
    Stu
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