top & man pages

Kenneth madhse at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 4 09:24:45 MST 2006


Many commands also have "info" pages. Check out the info command, it might
give you more ability to search around.

--- stu <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > ----
> > 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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