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Old 12-09-2005
How to find the help in Linux
The command 'man' can display the usage of command, is there any other command that can show the help in Linux?

Thk a lot
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Old 12-09-2005
info

info will display longer tutorials about some utilties. Most of the basic commands like cat, cd, are in there as well.

FWIW - if you know some MS-DOS commands, several are based on unix, so you can do basic things just with that knowledge.
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Old 12-12-2005
The system can't find 'info' when i type .
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Old 12-13-2005
www.tldp.org

The Linux Documentation Project - Contains a wealth of guides and howtos.

There is a mirror of this website (even though it will be out of date) bundled with many distros and a load of documentation can usually be found under /usr/share/doc

Cheers
ZB
 
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