[GTALUG] Suggestions: A Book for a Beginner, new to the Linux Shell

Mel Wilson mwilson at vex.net
Sun Jul 17 14:30:18 EDT 2016


On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 13:39 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, David Thornton via talk wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If anyone says you need a man(1) just tell them you have better info(1).
> > 
> > "Info" is a documentation system that ships with most uni* and often has actual examples.
> 
>     I much prefer the man pages to info.
> 
>     The man page is more (or at least as) easily searchable.

But with passing time there's less and less there to search for.  Recent
man pages can be very perfunctory.  I was disappointed at the switch.
Gnu created one of the worst hypertext browsers in the world and made
that the standard.

	Mel.




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