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

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Fri Nov 5 11:48:15 EST 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Alexandros Papadopoulos
>Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:58 AM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Using man pages (was: Re: [wplug] Video editing)
>
>
>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.
>
	Also note that many packages take advantage of the "info" system
- try 'info <packagename>' and see....

Don



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