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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cygwin - sh-3.2$ help! Post 302187951 by bobby999 on Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 10:02:24 AM
Old 04-22-2008
cygwin - sh-3.2$ help!
i am completely new to unix and am trying to learn with cygwin.

my problem is simple....


when i use the 'man' command, eg 'man cat'

id do not know how to get out of the manual!!!?

if i type '!' and Return,

rather than having just the $ prompt, it has 'sh-3.2$' as a command prompt.

i cant get out of this without completely closing and reopening cygwin again.

PWD : /usr/share/man

must be something simple!!!!????

ALso anyone reccomend any other way to practice unix on windopws other than Cygwin?
 

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whatis

whatis(1)							   User Commands							 whatis(1)

NAME

       whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword

SYNOPSIS

       whatis command...

DESCRIPTION

       whatis  looks  up  a  given  command  and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more
       information. If the line starts name(section)... you can do man -ssection name to get the documentation for it.	Try whatis ed and then you
       should do man -s 1 ed to get the manual page for ed(1).

       whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

       whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database.	This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.

FILES

       /usr/share/man/windex	Table of contents and keyword database

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdoc			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)

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