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Man Viewer: view all installed man pages on Leopard

Man ViewerMan Viewer is a small application that does a simple job: it lets you view/export all of the man pages installed in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Man (short for manual) pages are Unix documents that explain how to use Unix commands. The general command usage to display a man page in Unix is: man <command> as in man cp (to show how to use the copy command).

Man Viewer automatically finds your man pages and displays them in a searchable list. Clicking a specific page will display the contents on the right pane for easy reading. You can then export the document to plain text or post script.

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Filed under: Features, Linux, Productivity, Open Source, How-Tos, Troubleshooting

Flipping the Linux switch: New users guide to the terminal

The command line. It strikes fear in the hearts of many a new Linux user. They open their terminals reluctantly, and there the prompt sits, with the cursor blinking in rhythm with their racing hearts. What does that blinking cursor want? It's expecting something... It wants something...

All right, so maybe it's not horror movie material.

But it is intimidating for many new users. Navigating the command line might be a mystery to you, or maybe you've read a little about it and wonder: out of all those commands, which ones am I really going to use? Which ones are the most help in a given situation?

Either way, we've got you covered. These are the commands we've found are most useful to new users. They range from basic navigation to commands that are great for troubleshooting.

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