Billie Walsh said the following on 11/20/2012 09:23 AM:
Sometimes a simple answer IS the best way to teach someone how to use Linux.
Indeed, but sometimes the 'someone' doesn't want to accept a simple answer or has got them selves so tied in knots and preconceived notions that we have to unwind them first. UNIX and Linux is really really simple, Compared to other systems its is simple and regular. But sometimes people are so used to the irregular, the arcane and cryptic that they have a problem with something as straightforward as Linux. The MAN pages are an example of this. They are straight forward and undecorated descriptions of the command from a technical POV. This is the command; this is its arguments; this is what the arguments and their parameters do. That's it! No lecture; nothing on why you should or should not use this, philosophy etc etc etc. That's not the purpose of MAN pages. And all to often the answer really is RTFM. The simple answer is that the OP didn't pay attention to what was in the MAN page ... or the on-line examples. -- One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." -- Marcus J. Ranum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org