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Once upon a time, the manpages were a printed object. This, coupled with some of Bell and later BSD's quirks about naming things, led to some historic naming co
by indrora 4y ago
Once upon a time, the manpages were a printed object. This, coupled with some of Bell and later BSD's quirks about naming things, led to some historic naming conventions. See also: this entire damn conversation on naming directories.
One wasn't intended to call man directly, instead calling apropos first, finding the appropriate page to open.
- colejohnson66 4y agoBut what if I need to read on how to use apropos? Then I need to do `man apropos` and I'm stuck in a cycle! /s https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html