02-25-2016
For a very short and very incomplete (but hopefully also very easy to understand) introduction about how the find-command works
read here.
Reading the man-pages as Don suggested is still a worthwile effort.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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yelp(1) User Commands yelp(1)
NAME
yelp, gnome-help - GNOME help browser
SYNOPSIS
yelp [URL] [gnome-std-options]
gnome-help [URL] [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
The GNOME help browser is a utility that allows users to view documentation for GNOME in several formats including man pages, HTML,
SGML(DocBook), and GNU info files.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URL This allows you to view a specific help document by providing the complete URL to the documentation that you wish to view.
If URL starts with "ghelp:", yelp opens the help document within ghelp.
If URL does not start with "ghelp:", yelp attempts to launch a default Internet browser window and display the contents of
the help document within this browser window.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
The GNOME Handbook of Writing Software Documentation is available at the following URL:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook.html
To access the API documentation for including help in applications, you must install the developer version of the package.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching GNOME Help Browser
example% yelp
Example 2: Launching GNOME Help Browser and loading the help information for gnome-printinfo
example% yelp ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-print-manager/C/gnome-print-manager.xml
Example 3: Launching GNOME Help Browser with a standard Internet URL
example% yelp http://www.gnome.org
The default Internet browser is launched (unless a browser is already running), and this URL is displayed within the browser window.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:
INFOPATH Location of GNU Info files.
MANPATH Location of man pages.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/yelp Executable for GNOME help browser
/usr/bin/gnome-help Executable for GNOME help browser
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-help-viewer |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
gnome-std-options(5), scrollkeeper-config(1), scrollkeeper(1), scrollkeeper-devel(1)
NOTES
yelp and gnome-help are both the same application.
Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.
SunOS 5.10 8 Oct 2003 yelp(1)