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Move up and down the man file with the arrow keys, and quit back to the command prompt with <keycap>q</keycap>.
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Located in
basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:385(para)
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<screen>man man</screen> will bring up the manual entry for the <command>man</command> command, which is a good place to start.
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Located in
basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:390(para)
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<screen>man intro</screen> is especially useful - it displays the "Introduction to user commands" which is a well-written, fairly brief introduction to the Linux command line.
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Located in
basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:396(para)
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There are also <command>info</command> pages, which are generally more in-depth than <command>man</command> pages. Try <screen>info info</screen> for the introduction to info pages.
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basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:401(para)
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Searching for man files
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basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:411(title)
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If you aren't sure which command or application you need to use, you can try searching the man files.
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basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:412(para)
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This is the same as the <command>apropos</command> command.
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Located in
basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:425(para)
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<command>man -k foo</command>, will search the man files for <emphasis>foo</emphasis>. Try <screen>man -k nautilus</screen> to see how this works. <placeholder-1/>
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basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:418(para)
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This is the same as the <command>whatis</command> command.
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Located in
basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:438(para)
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<command>man -f foo</command>, searches only the titles of your system's man files. For example, try <screen>man -f gnome</screen><placeholder-1/>
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Located in
basic-commands/C/basic-commands.xml:433(para)
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