Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:11:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
However, back when these concepts were being developed, it was pretty
easy to read *all* the unix man pages and understand which tool should
be used for which job. Before X was included, the entire manual set for
a unix system fit in 3 fairly small books. Now, with all the X programs
and development tools included, finding the old simple utilities would
be a much harder job even though they still work as well as ever.
One suggestion is to do "rpm -ql coreutils" and skim through the man page of each of those utilies.
Then, for slightly more advanced (and often linux-specific) utilities, look at "rpm -ql util-linux".
If you want only documentation rpm -qd <packagename> is more helpful
regards Rahul
