Finding Online Help |
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The EWS workstations offer a variety of online help. If at anytime someone is unable to find an answer, you can always asked an on-duty site consultant. |
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Using man |
There are online manuals which one can access for various commands. The command to use is:
man _______ where _______ is whatever command you are interested in looking up. For example, if you wanted to learn more about ls, the command that allows you to see what's in your directory, you would type:
man ls
Looking at a man page for the first time can be confusing. There are two main parts to look at when you are reading the man page. If you are an experienced user, just a peek at the first part of the manual entry that contains the flags will be sufficient for you, but if you are an inexperienced user, you will want to read the descriptions of the flags which are contained at the middle of the man page. |
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