Using man pages (was: Re: [wplug] Video editing)

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Fri Nov 5 10:58:10 EST 2004


On Friday 05 November 2004 17:34, Bryon Gill wrote:
> The mplayer man page is organized terribly and contains far too few
> examples. I only rely on it as a last resort, honestly.  I figured
> the -ss thing out by googling for "mencoder offset".

We're missing the context here because of top-posting, but anyway:

For chaotic but data-rich man pages like mplayer(1), using the slash "/" 
to search for a string is a very useful mechanism that not everyone is 
aware of.

Type [/][ENTER] to search for the same string again.

-A


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