[plug] Re: more basic linux stuff

[David Buddrige]

Shayne O'Neill writes: 

> and your best friend from now on;-
> man (name of the program)

Not to mention, 

  apropos <keyword> 

which will display a list of manual pages having that keyword in them.  If 
yours is a new system, you may need to run the command: 

/usr/sbin/makewhatis 

which will generate the database of keywords for the apropos command to 
search.  You will have to run the makewhatis command as the root user 
though. 

The other command is: 

  whatis <command> 

which will tell you what a command is.  The whatis command also works from 
the database generated by makewhatis. 

cheers 

David.