%man command [Enter]
(Display the manpage for "command". The major source of
documentation for Unix systems.)
(Press [Spacebar] to scroll through text)
([Ctrl]-[B] to go back a page)
([Ctrl]-[F] to go forward a page)
(q or [Ctrl]-[C] to quit.)
%which command [Enter]
(Tells you where in the path the command is, if it exists.)
%locate text [Enter]
(All the locations where the string text is found regardles
of path. Useful for finding files or commands if you don't know
where they are.)
%whatis command [Enter]
(Tells you what the command does and its man page. Typing
whatis * will tell you about all the commands in the current
directory.
%whereis text [Enter]
(Finds the file text, giving its full path.)
You might want to try using whatis on some common useful commands like
cat, more, grep, mv, find, tar, chmod, chown, date, and script. more lets
you read a page at a time as it does in DOS, e.g., ls -l | more or more
filename. The * works as a wildcard--e.g., ls w* will show you files
beginning with w.
%ls filename | lpr [Enter]
(Pipes the output of the ls command to the printer.)
$spell filename > new_filename; lpr new_filename & [Enter]
(Redirects the output of the spell command to new_filename and then
prints new_filename on the printer all in the background.)
