1.5. Access Documentation

It used to be said that Unix and Linux were short on documentation. Nowadays, if anything, there's too much. This lab will guide you to some of the sources of documentation.

I will deal first with the most traditional source of documentation for Unix and Linux systems, the so-called "manual" pages, often abbreviated to "manpages." The usage and format of these goes back many years. They were originally intended to document the command-line tools, and that is still their main purpose. You will, generally speaking, not find manpages for the graphical tools.