top & man pages

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jul 3 15:59:22 MST 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:21 -0700, betty wrote:
> wow the 'top' command is pretty cool.
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does your husband know what a geek you've become?
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> 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



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