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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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UNDOCUMENTED(7) 					     Linux Programmer's Manual						   UNDOCUMENTED(7)

NAME
undocumented - No manpage for this program, utility or function. DESCRIPTION
This program, utility or function does not have a useful manpage. Before opening a bug to report this, please check with the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) at <http://bugs.debian.org/> if a bug has already been reported. If not, you can submit a wishlist bug if you want. If you are a competent and accurate writer and are willing to spend the time reading the source code and writing good manpages please write a better man page than this one. Please contact the package maintainer and copy man-pages@qa.debian.org in order to avoid several people working on the same manpage. Even if you are not an accurate writer, your input may be helpful. Writing manual pages is quite easy, the format is described in man(7). The most important and time-consuming task is to collect the information to be put in the new manpage. DIAGNOSTICS
It is possible that the man page for the command you specified is installed and that your manual page index caches are out of sync. You should try running mandb(8). Try the following options if you want more information: foo --help, foo -h, foo -? info foo whatis foo, apropos foo dpkg --listfiles foo, dpkg --search foo locate '*foo*' find / -name '*foo*' Additionally, check the directories /usr/share/doc/foo, /usr/lib/foo. The documentation might be in a package starting with the same name as the package the software belongs to, but ending with -doc or -docs. If you still didn't find the information you are looking for you might consider posting a call for help to debian-user@lists.debian.org. SEE ALSO
info(1), whatis(1), apropos(1), dpkg(8), locate(1), find(1), updatedb(1), undocumented(3), man(7), mandb(8), missing(7). Debian GNU/Linux August 24th, 2003 UNDOCUMENTED(7)
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