Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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>Perhaps some search command for man pages would be useful here
basic searching can be done with
man -k keyword | more
where 'keyword' should be replaced by the keyword you wish to search by. i include the '| more' because usually it returns more than 1 screen of results.