Re: Bash script piping question

Robert Hull <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In comp.os.linux.misc, on Mon 19 December 2005 22:03, Dan Espen
> <daneNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just for your education, when someone says "man x",
>> they are trying to tell you to go to a command line
>> and read the man page for x.
>>
> Not necessarily. The people who prefer pointy-clicky can open a browser
> such as konqueror and type man:x in the address line to read the man
> page for x

I didn't want to confuse the OP, but IMO, nothing beats M-x manual-entry
in XEmacs. Reading man pages at the command line is not the way to go.
.

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