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Re: Re[4]: man pages - second try
On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
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> I see Marc's grinning with satisfaction :)
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> I haven't read "LINUX UNLEASHED"; the "Installation Giude" does the job it's
> supposed to do: helps installing linux, and it does it very good, IMO. There are
> quite a few good books about Unix administration. Refering to "basic utilities":
> look in the /bin directory. Whatever you see there are basic utilities. Do `man'
> on each of them. Then go to /sbin... then /usr/bin and /usr/sbin ... ok, now you
> can earn good $$ as a sysadm :)
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> man is such a list. And you can get it on-line or in printed form (CheapBytes
> sell it for something like $10). But it's impossible to remember all the
> commands. Instead, you should make a search any time you need to understand
> something: `man -k disk' would give not so long list of appropriative utilities,
> df among them.
How about adding the above advice to the Linux-IL FAQ?
--- Omer
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