Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm sure it's really easy, but I have searched on Google and on the forums and haven't found anything.

For instance, if I open the grep manual (man grep), I can't close it.
I've tried ctrl+c, ctrl+x, scrolling to the bottom of the manual.
How can I exit the manual without closing the shell?

edit: Thank you Tytalus.

you can quit the man pages at any time by pressing q

try h to see the full help.

the man pages are basically shunted through "more" so same syntax/command set as there.

HTH

FWIW -- I like to pump my man pages into vi before reading them because oftentimes
they contain code snippets and structs and what-not that I want to immediately use.
vi lets me grab specific lines and store them very nicely.

so my 'man' is actually 'mon' ( kinda Jamaican )

mon:

man $* | col -b > /tmp/man.$LOGNAME
vi /tmp/man.$LOGNAME
/bin/rm /tmp/man.$LOGNAME

or something like that...
Actually, there's a lot more to it... but that's essentially it.

Why do you need to read it in vi to do that? Simply copy and paste from the output of man.

you're right. you don't. it's just that I use vi 90% of my day...
it's just easy to search.... scroll backwards, forwards....
use the same hot-keys in "man" as I do everywhere else.
rather than switching to "more" mode.

Plus - - - on my machine - - - man uses formatting characters,
underlines, and overstrikes, ( ie. ^Hi^Hi^Hi^Hi ) where I've had problems cutting and pasting because you get all those control characters also.

Using col -b and vi eliminates that concern.

set your 'PAGER' to 'less' - this is more convenient.
<depending on your shell>

Code:

export PAGER=less

I've never know cutting (highlighting with the mouse) to capture control characters.