Scripting question, [small programming question

[Rahul Sundaram]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:11:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>However, back when these concepts were being developed, it was pretty
>>easy to read *all* the unix man pages and understand which tool should
>>be used for which job.  Before X was included, the entire manual set for
>>a unix system fit in 3 fairly small books.  Now, with all the X programs
>>and development tools included, finding the old simple utilities would
>>be a much harder job even though they still work as well as ever.
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>One suggestion is to do "rpm -ql coreutils" and skim through the man page of
>each of those utilies.
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>Then, for slightly more advanced (and often linux-specific) utilities, look
>at "rpm -ql util-linux".
>
If you want only documentation rpm -qd <packagename> is more helpful

regards
Rahul