On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 06:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >Often the man pages have examples of the way the author expected > >the program to be used. However, there's still a good chance > >that isn't exactly what you want to do with it. > > I submit to you all the manpages for bash. <snip> > I rest my case. Man pages are *not* intended, nor should they be relied upon, to learn something new. They are there as reference pages - you go to the man page to look up details or finer points. In the case of bash, I would look at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash- Beginners-Guide/html/ followed up with http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/. As with pretty much any complex piece of software, there is usually a "getting started" guide and a reference guide. You should not start with the reference guide, you should look over the "getting started" docs first. Thomas
