Intro to Linux || Cisco Lab 6 || Getting Help
00:00 - 6.1 Introduction
00:09 - 6.2 Getting Help
|| type in commands
|| accessing the manual page for command
|| h for movement commands, q to quit
|| searching through the page by using /(string)
|| man -k (command) displays a summary of all manual pages that have that (command) as a keyword
|| man -k (command) == aprops (command)
|| man -f (command) to only find the section associate with (command)
|| man (number) (command) displays a manual page for the section
|| man -f (command) == whatis (command)
06:59 - 6.2.12
|| info (command)
|| "shift+h" shows list of commands we can do, "q" to quit, and "l" to return to previous page in document
|| documents in the info page, hovering curser over underlined text and pressing enter
10:04 - 6.2.16
|| (command) --help shows basic command usage
|| showing more detailed documents, usually in /usr/share/doc, use (command) /usr/share/doc
11:19 - 6.3 Finding Files
|| locate (file name), shows the locations of files with the name of that file
|| locate -b "\(file name)", finds files just named the file name, narrows down the search
|| locate command is usually updated only at night
|| updatedb, to update the locate command, must be root user
|| man find command searches files that have been made most recently
|| whereis (command), just finds where a command or its man pages are located
Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G...
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