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<!-- $Id: basics.sgml,v 1.1.1.1 1995-04-28 16:19:59 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: basics.sgml,v 1.2 1995-06-14 18:38:49 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<chapt><heading>Unix Basics</heading>
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<tt><bf>man</bf></tt> command. Use of the
<tt><bf>man</bf></tt> command is simple:
<tscreen>
<tt><bf>man</bf> <it>command</it></tt>
<bf>man</bf> <it>command</it>
</tscreen>
where <it>command</it> is the name of the command
you wish to find. For example, to learn more about
you wish to learn about. For example, to learn more about
<tt><bf>ls</bf></tt> command type:
<tscreen>
<tt><bf>man</bf> ls</tt>
% <bf>man ls</bf>
</tscreen>
<p>The online manual is divided up into numbered
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you can tell the <tt><bf>man</bf></tt> command which
you want by specifying the section:
<tscreen>
<tt><bf>man</bf> 1 chmod</tt>
% <bf>man 1 chmod</bf>
</tscreen>
which will display the manual page for the user command
<tt><bf>chmod</bf></tt>.
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<p>This is fine if you know the name of the command and
forgot how to use it, but what if you cannot recall the
command name? You can use <tt><bf>man</bf></tt> to
search through the command <em>descriptions</em> by
search for keywords in the command <em>descriptions</em> by
using the <tt><bf>-k</bf></tt> switch:
<tscreen>
<tt><bf>man</bf> -k mail</tt>
% <bf>man -k mail</bf>
</tscreen>
With this command you will be presented with a list of
commands that have the keyword `mail' in their
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<p>FreeBSD includes many applications and utilities
produced by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). In
addition to man pages, these programs come with more
extensive <em>info</em> files which can be viewed with
the <tt>info</tt> command or, if you installed
<tt>emacs</tt>, the info mode of <tt>emacs</tt>.
extensive hypertext documents called <em>info</em>
files which can be viewed with the <tt>info</tt>
command or, if you installed <tt>emacs</tt>, the info
mode of <tt>emacs</tt>.
To use the <tt>info(1)</tt> command, simply type:
<tscreen>% <bf>info</bf></tscreen> For a brief
introduction, type <tt><bf>h</bf></tt>, and for a quick
command reference, type <tt><bf>?</bf></tt>.
</sect>