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ktg
PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:55 pm    Post subject: Navigating man pages Reply with quote

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Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 138
Location: India

Hi All,

For commands like 'man ls', 'man cd', etc., in the resulting man page, there would be underlined words.
For ex, for man ls,

Quote:
User Commands ls(1)

NAME
ls - list contents of directory

SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/ls [ -aAbcCdfFgilLmnopqrRstux1 ] [ file ... ]

/usr/xpg4/bin/ls [ -aAbcCdfFgilLmnopqrRstux1 ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION
For each file that is a directory, ls lists the contents of
the directory; for each file that is an ordinary file, ls
repeats its name and any other information requested. The
output is sorted alphabetically by default. When no argument
is given, the current directory is listed. When several
arguments are given, the arguments are first sorted
appropriately, but file arguments appear before directories
and their contents.

There are three major listing formats. The default format
for output directed to a terminal is multi-column with
......................


Here, the word 'file' is underlined. Is it like hyperlink? If yes, how to "click" on it (Is there is a way to navigate/find information related to the word 'file')?

TIA,
Kalpana
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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jedi Knight

Joined: 25 Mar 2003
Posts: 2538
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Its not a hyperlink, its just adds emphasis to refer to arguments which need to be specified on the command line.

Unix man pages were doing this before Internet existed!
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