Comments on: Five ways to get help in the Mac OS X Command Line http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Wed, 22 May 2013 19:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Foeliitanioto http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-98970 Foeliitanioto Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:06:23 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-98970 Settykita <a href="http://avs5edmzhssk.com" rel="nofollow">yf5f</a> Settykita
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]]> By: Chris http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-2270 Chris Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:31:47 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-2270 Let's say you're programming and need to look up information regarding sockets, but socket(3) didn't provide the information you are looking for. Doing 'apropos socket' will get you a list of _all_ manual pages talking about sockets, like accept(3), bind(3) and connect(3). Let’s say you’re programming and need to look up information regarding sockets, but socket(3) didn’t provide the information you are looking for.

Doing ‘apropos socket’ will get you a list of _all_ manual pages talking about sockets, like accept(3), bind(3) and connect(3).

]]> By: jared http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-2197 jared Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:52:02 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-2197 that is great so is the info command but I don't understand the purpose of apropos and what it possibly does that is great so is the info command but I don’t understand the purpose of apropos and what it possibly does

]]> By: Island in the Net http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-2174 Island in the Net Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:21:37 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/24/five-ways-to-get-help-in-the-mac-os-x-command-line/#comment-2174 You forgot : info INFO(1) User Commands INFO(1) NAME info - read Info documents SYNOPSIS info [OPTION]... [MENU-ITEM...] DESCRIPTION Read documentation in Info format. EXAMPLES info show top-level dir menu info emacs start at emacs node from top-level dir info emacs buffers start at buffers node within emacs manual info --show-options emacs start at node with emacs' command line options info -f ./foo.info show file ./foo.info, not searching dir You forgot : info

INFO(1) User Commands INFO(1)

NAME
info – read Info documents

SYNOPSIS
info [OPTION]… [MENU-ITEM...]

DESCRIPTION
Read documentation in Info format.

EXAMPLES
info show top-level dir menu

info emacs
start at emacs node from top-level dir

info emacs buffers
start at buffers node within emacs manual

info –show-options emacs
start at node with emacs’ command line options

info -f ./foo.info
show file ./foo.info, not searching dir

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