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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Listing Live System Status Post 302724543 by bakunin on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 07:06:54 PM
Old 10-31-2012
Here is a tip: you can find a man page by entering

Code:
man <command>

but this assumes that you know which command you look for. You can also search the man database for keywords by using the "-k" switch.

Code:
man -k foo

will display a list of all articles involving "foo". You can then start to read these articles one by one. Also useful: at the end of each man page there is usually a paragraph labeled "SEE ALSO". I suggest you do exactly this.

For instance:

Quote:
5. And a command showing the IP/MAC mappings of each of the LAN connected computers
You sure know the network protocol which maps layer-2 (MAC) addresses to layer-3 (IP) addresses, don't you? Now, enter this as a keyword in a "man" search and you might find some useful references.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

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)

SunOS 5.11							    14 Sep 1992 							 whatis(1)
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