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RE: documentation for windows
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- Subject: RE: documentation for windows
- From: "Michael Erdely" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:37:35 -0400
It may also be worth noting, since you are recommending this for
newbies, that you have to type "/usr/sbin/makewhatis" to create the
whatis database for apropos to be useful. ;-)
-ME
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jorgensen
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:37 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin. Com (E-mail); cygwin@cygwin. Com (E-mail)
Subject: RE: documentation for windows
The apropos command may be even more useful to a newby. I don't
remember
how long I struggled the first time I wanted to rename a file. The
apropos
command searches the man and info pages for a key word, and reports the
relevant entries.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Franklin [SMTP:joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:22 AM
To: will@siteaboutnothing.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: re: documentation for windows
If you're really that new to *NIX, you might not
know about the dominant form of documentation--
man pages. Just type 'man [name of command]' for
basic usage info. And, IARC, the BASH manual is
in /usr/doc or somewhere. Try 'find /usr -name "bash*.html"'
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