On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:53 +0000, Joao Paulo Pires wrote: > Man pages - Each time I try get some help from man pages I get > disappointed. Wich is the proper way to learn some more from console? > If I call --help I just get confused. Am I dummy? I think the first > way to learn should be the man pages. I can imagine this is a basic > need for a newbie. TIA, Joao. Hi Joao; When using man you can just type "h" to get to the help file, it is very useful in learning the commands that are available to search through a man page. Try also typing man man - the man page for man, gives suggestion on how to search the man pages. Here are a few places to start online: http://man.linuxquestions.org - search the man pages online in html www.tldp.org www.google.com/linux www.fedorafaq.org - this one is really good actually Now for learning, I get confused by man pages a lot too and in the end I finally just buckled down and bought some books, here are a few titles you might want to look at: O'Reilly LINUX In A Nutshell O'Reilly Running Linux O'Reilly Linux Network Administrator Guide - there is a version of this one on www.tldp.org so you might not want to buy it Linux Essential Reference - by Ed Petron - this one is a lot like LINUX In A Nutshell so you might not want to bother, I use it once in a while if I can't find it in LINUX In A Nutshell first. I am quite sure some other people will suggest better resources, but I hope you find these ones useful. Sincerely, -- Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@xxxxxxxxx>
