Unix man page


Unix manual page

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    operating system (Or “man page”) A part of Unix’s extensive on-line documentation. To read a manual page from the Unix command line, type: man [-s ] e.g. “man ftp” (the section number can usually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation “page(section)”, e.g. ftp(1). Under SunOS (which is fairly typical), Section 1 […]

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    jargon (ITS) 1. A derogatory play on “Unix wizard”, common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste […]


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