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Reading manual pages

14 Feb 2022 » linux, unix

Man - refered to manual page

By default, man typically uses a terminal pager program such as more or less to display its output.

Man Page gudelines

#SYNOPSIS

bold text          type exactly as shown.
italic text        replace with appropriate argument.
[-abc]             any or all arguments within [ ] are optional.
-a|-b              options delimited by | cannot be used together.
argument ...       argument is repeatable.
[expression] ...   entire expression within [ ] is repeatable.

Some useful commands

q/Q - quit manual page
j - Forward  one line   (or N lines).
k - Backward one line   (or N lines).
^F - Forward  one window (or N lines).
^B - Backward one window (or N lines).

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