Understanding Man Pages in Linux [Beginner's Guide]
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The man pages, short for reference manual pages, are your keys to Linux. Understanding the man pages could be challenging. This guide will help you.

Covers meaning of chapters and sections, whatis, whereis, and man -k.

  • somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    For me, setting up colored man pages is essential. I was hoping to see that in this article, because my methods aren’t ideal.

    I’m either holding most back a couple versions, using a personal version of gentoos man pager that relies on texinfo and breaks on fedora, or using vim which is not my favorite.