It may also be worth noting, since you are recommending this for
newbies, that you have to type "/usr/sbin/makewhatis" to create the
whatis database for apropos to be useful. ;-)
-ME
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Steve Jorgensen
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:37 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin. Com (E-mail); cygwin@cygwin. Com (E-mail)
Subject: RE: documentation for windows
The apropos command may be even more useful to a newby. I don't
remember
how long I struggled the first time I wanted to rename a file. The
apropos
command searches the man and info pages for a key word, and reports the
relevant entries.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Franklin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: documentation for windows
If you're really that new to *NIX, you might not
know about the dominant form of documentation--
man pages. Just type 'man [name of command]' for
basic usage info. And, IARC, the BASH manual is
in /usr/doc or somewhere. Try 'find /usr -name "bash*.html"'
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