Hi Group, When I started out with Linux I knew the real gurus used the command line and that it was really powerful etc etc as I'd read a lot of magazines etc that kept promoting it. The problem was and still is that when you open a terminal you are met with a prompt and a flashing cursor and the rest of the screen is blank.
I knew about the man pages but that just frustrated me more. 1 of my friends is a long time Linux user and I would say to him "Whats the point of having the man pages when I don't know what the commands are to start with?" I can hardly type $ man <command> if I don't know the command now can I? Anyway my point is this. After almost 12 months of frustration I finally found out about the man -k <keyword> command. I couldn't understand why this wasn't displayed in a new terminal above the prompt so you could see it the first time you logged in. Then I also found the apropos command. Is there a reason the Linux community makes it so hard to learn the command line? What I propose is a simple "First time here? try man -k <keyword> to get you started" Is this a possibility? -- Regards Nathaniel http://about.me/nathanieloffer
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