# NOTE 1: GLYPHS (CHARACTERS) MAY NOT LOAD. RENDER THEM AS '#' ACCORDINGLY. # NOTE 2: THIS SHORT USELESS PIECE OF INFORMATION ASSUMES THAT YOU ARE SOMEHOW SELDOM FAMILIAR WITH THE COMMAND LINE INTER- FACE. # NOTE 3: A WELL WRITTEN PERSUASIVE ESSAY. (will not rm -rf / your computer). § HOW TO READ MAN PAGE FOR NOVICES BEGINNING § Having trouble reading man pages? THIS GUIDE WILL GUIDE YOU WITH THE BARE MINIMUM SKILLS TO GET YOU STARTED. THERE ARE THOUSANDS [if not, millions as of writing this] COMMANDS THAT EXIST PACKAGED TOGETHER WITH THE LINUX KERNEL. AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, THE AMOUNT OF MAN PAGES QUICKLY ADD UP BECOMING OVERLY OBTUSE FOR THE HUMAN MIND TO COMPREHEND. SO, FOR THIS REASON, MAN PAGES ARE GROUPED INTO ENUMARATED SECTIONS. THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. EVENTUALLY, BECOMING CONFUSING FOR A NEWCOMER TO '©nix-like' SYSTEMS. WAYS HAVE BEEN SOUGHT TO TEACH ALIKE A NOVICE BUT MUCH HAS FAILED MISERABLY. #This crappy guide written in /CMD.EXE EDIT\ WILL SERVE YOU A "WELL-WRITTEN" INTRO TO MAN PAGES. WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT ls AND rm. \n for obvious reasons, there are 60 and 12 options respectively, so we have to save some disk space and keep this document tidy \f SYPNOSIS ls [OPTION]... [FILE]... ls just means list directory and contents so with the options virtually, append one to it, one may not fear as it will not overwrite anything... unless you are foolish enough to rm -rf / for example; ls -l -rw-rw-r-- 1 aeb 37 bytes Aug 6 23:51 tel AS YOU CAN SEE, APPENDING OPTIONS WITH THIS COMMON OPTION DOES NOTHING BAD. /f SYPNOSIS rm [OPTION].. [FILE]... rm -r /tmp/weWillMeetAgain THIS DELETES THE CONTENTS OF THE DIRECTORY. PROMPTS FOR COMFIRMATION IF MORE THAN 3 FILES ARE DELETED. #RESOURCES 1. https://www.manned.org/man/intro.1 2. https://www.manned.org/man/ls 3. https://www.manned.org/man/rm 4. https://www.manned.org/man/printf 5. https://igwiki.lyci.de 6. https://www.tldp.org 7. https://www.slackbook.org THERE, YOU CAN FINALLY READ MAN PAGES AFTER I SPENT MORE THAN 10 WEEKS STAYING AT MY HUMBLE ABODE CAREFULLY EXAMINING EACH DETAIL :). written this in cmd.exe gonna switch to gnu/linux in a few weeks YAY. licensed under the GPL.