Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Fri Dec 30 19:10:14 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 06:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >Often the man pages have examples of the way the author expected
> >the program to be used. However, there's still a good chance
> >that isn't exactly what you want to do with it.
>
> I submit to you all the manpages for bash.
<snip>
> I rest my case.
Man pages are *not* intended, nor should they be relied upon, to learn
something new. They are there as reference pages - you go to the man
page to look up details or finer points.
In the case of bash, I would look at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-
Beginners-Guide/html/ followed up with
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/.
As with pretty much any complex piece of software, there is usually a
"getting started" guide and a reference guide. You should not start
with the reference guide, you should look over the "getting started"
docs first.
Thomas
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