You Don't Need a GUI

Re:You Don't Need a GUI by User23 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:20PM (#26745402)

This reminds me of my first experience with (DEC) Unix at JHU. I had been a VMS user, so when I logged into the unfamiliar system I typed in "help." The JHU site admin had helpfully set the output of the help command to be, paraphrasing, "I see you know nothing about Unix, please talk to the staff member." He told me, "oh, in Unix help is spelled man." Obvious!

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by tuatoru on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:26PM (#26745432)

Bash, at least, is more helpful these days.

    $help
    GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
    These shell commands are defined internally.  Type `help' to see this list.
    Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
    Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
    Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.

That last sentence in particular.

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