man and/or info

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: man and/or info
started by: thierry

Posted by thierry on Nov. 03 2003,17:16

Hi,

Smee again.

Still for a rescue CD, it would be nice to have some online documentation.

'Cause when you're trying to restore a crashed system, you may not remember all the options of that particular command you wanna run, a you may not have another running machine handy to have a check.

Thanks.

Posted by roberts on Nov. 03 2003,18:22

Minimal documentation can usually be had by typing the command with
--help
as an option. For example:
find --help
ls --help
rm --help

At least it will usually display the valid options to help jog my memory.

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 03 2003,18:32

Assuming that netorking is up and runnning, just add this page to your bookmarks:

< http://man.linuxquestions.org/ >

or search Google for "online man pages"

The man pages are text so they appear fast even when on a dial-up connection.