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Monday, February 16. 2004

Learn something new everyday

Linux.com has had a running series on CLI commands for Newbies. Most of it has been very basic, but there are still a few gems within. For instance, today I was introduced to apropos and whatis. Give a search term to the former, and it will list all programs in which the search term is found in the manpages; give a program name to the latter, and it will tell you which man page addresses it.

Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in Linux, Personal at 07:33 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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