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| ktg |
 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: Navigating man pages |
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Centurion
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 138
Location: India
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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,
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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
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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,
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
Posts: 2538
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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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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