Danjel Jungersen wrote:
Good point!!
I try to read them, but are still not experienced enough to make
sense of them (some times), but I have actually had the same feeling
a few times :-)
I find that the biggest problem is to find the correct man-page, if I
want to "see how my resources are used", thats very hard to find in
man (IMHO), but once you found "top", they are great...
:-)
Danjel
Finding things is a BIG problem sometimes.
I was recently working in psql (for PostgreSQL), when I accidentally hit
Cntrl-R instead of Shift-R.
Up pops a cursor with reverse-i-search!
I searched the web for what this was. Turns out that in both psql AND in
shell, this brings up a search through past command history. Hit the
right letters and old commands pop up.
Very useful. (says I-search at prompt in ksh).
I have not found anything about this in man pages at all. man -k gives
nothing.
I guess a good question would be how to find out stuff like this
systematically.
I'm glad I found this, I often need to repeat commands that are way back
in the history. Very quick solution for this.
Chris Bennett
--
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein
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