Chapter 7 . Using Documentation 279 info ls
Chapter 7 . Using Documentation 279 info ls should give you access to the complete manual. GNU fileutils 4.0p March 2000 1 The spacebar is used to scroll down through the man page display one page at a time. The Q key exits the man page display. If you wish to search for text within the man page, the regular expressions can be used. An example is shown in the following with the characters used to locate the optionstring. /option Locating man pages Linux man pages are stored on the system. The MANPATH variable contains the location of these files. The man pages are stored by default in the following locations. . /usr/man/man1 . /usr/man/man2 . /usr/man/man3 . /usr/man/man4 . /usr/man/man5 . /usr/man/man6 . /usr/man/man7 . /usr/man/man8 . /usr/man/man9 The significance of the numbers is discussed in the following section of the chapter, Searching man page sections. Exam Tip Be sure to know the default location of the man page source files. This will likely appear as an exam question. The user can specify a different MANPATH. This allows a different set of man pages to be used. This is useful because some commands may not store their man pages in standard locations. Additionally, several options can be used with the mancommand, and an alternate path can be specified using an option as well. The options used by the mancommand are shown in Table 7-1.
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