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Old 11-23-2007, 11:05 AM   #34
BoxOfSnoo
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Originally Posted by plush2 View Post
Hey Talisman, I can empathize and sympathize fully. If you want the skinny on pretty much any of those command line applications try typing for example "man tar" if you want to learn details about the tar program. This is just another command line app called "man" that shows a text manual for the selected application and just about all of them have one as opposed to the --help tag which doesn't always bring up useful information. When you're done reading the "man page" (the common term for these) then you can exit using ctrl-z (I think, I'm not on linux right now). I used to avoid opening man pages because I didn't know how to close them when I was done. I would kill the whole terminal and start again....hehe.
Ctrl-Z puts processes in the background. fg brings them back.

man will run the text through your pager, usually "less". Press q to exit.

Also worth noting, / will start a search, space is page forward, and b is page backwards.
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