I'm new to Linux. I got the "Unix And Linux System Administration Handbook" It speaks of several verisons of linux and unix, and the commands for viewing linux man pages and not specific to ubuntu.
How do I view the manpages?
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I'm new to Linux. I got the "Unix And Linux System Administration Handbook" It speaks of several verisons of linux and unix, and the commands for viewing linux man pages and not specific to ubuntu.
How do I view the manpages?
Best Answer
To view a manual page related to a package, open a terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T together) and type:
For example, to view
grep
's manual page, type:This will open the manual page referring to the section numbers in the order:
If you want to open the manual page of a specific section, type:
For example, to open the manual page of the
open()
function in C, you should type:More information:
Refer to the the manual page for
man
.Search through Ubuntu Manpages at: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/.