linux.md

Linux

Assorted links relating to linux.

Using manpages

Manpages are short manuals, typically for specific programs.

Manpages are divided into 8 sections, often denoted like progname(1) which would be reached like:

man sudo 8

If you do not specify a section numer then man will just pick one from any matches available.

Brief commandline help for man util itself.

man --help

Basic man invocation format: man [man options] [[section] page ...] ...

man
man man
man man 1

Introductions to manpage sections.

man into

man into 1
man into 5
man into 8

About manpages.

man man-pages

Startingpoints

Suggested reading and experimentation starting-points. Places to begin browsing from.

man(1) "man - an interface to the system reference manuals"

## Try running these commands in your terminal:
man man

apropos(1) "apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions"

man apropos ## "apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions"

apropos man ## Will return a lot of useless results.
apropos -e man ## [-e|--exact] exact keyword match, much more managable results.
apropos -e '^man' ## [-r|--regex] regex search (default mode),

info(1) "info - read Info documents"

man info ## "info - read Info documents"

info

whatis(1) "whatis - display one-line manual page descriptions"

man whatis ## "whatis - display one-line manual page descriptions"

whatis whatis
whatis man
whatis openssl
whatis curl
whatis cups

Online manpages

Some sites exist that provide HTML versions of manpages you can view in your web browser.

• Online equivalent to $ man intro "intro - introduction to user commands"
• "Linux man pages online" (man7.org)
• "Linux manual pages: section 1" (man7.org)
• "Linux manual pages: section 5" (man7.org)
• "Linux manual pages: section 8" (man7.org)
• "Linux manual pages: alphabetic list of all pages" (man7.org)
• "Linux manual pages: directory by project" (man7.org)
• https://man.archlinux.org/man/man.7.en
• "Online man pages" - "Man page" (ArchWiki)
• "Noteworthy man pages" - "Man page" (ArchWiki)
• "man page" (Gentoo wiki)
• https://www.mankier.com/

Manpage-related

Not manpages nor listings of manpages; but still somehow related to manpages. History, etc.

• https://manpages.bsd.lv/index.html
• https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html

Listings of software

List of software for linux.

• "Linux Links Directory"
• "List of applications" (ArchWiki)
• "The Linux Alternative Project"

Manuals, handbooks, wikis

Longer manuals and other informative resources.

• "man page" (ArchWiki)
• Online equivalent to $ man intro "intro - introduction to user commands"
• Online equivalent to $ man man-pages 7 "man-pages - conventions for writing Linux man pages"
• Useful wiki: "Main Page" (ArchWiki)
• "Handbook:Main Page" ("Gentoo Handbook") (Gentoo wiki)
• "Main Page" (Gentoo wiki)
• "Info" (Gentoo wiki)

Manpages

Short manuals. If it's here it's probably deserved inclusion for being useful.

• https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html

Linux distros

Mint

• "Linux Mint"

Alma

• "Alma linux" and "AlmaLinux ISOs links" and Alma Release notes and "AlmaLinux Howto Guides (external)"
• "AlmaLinux Howto Guides (external)" (AlmaLinux Wiki)
• "Howto Series: AlmaLinux Tutorials (AlmaLinux Wiki)
• "AlmaLinux Migration Guide" (AlmaLinux Wiki) and "almalinux-deploy" - "EL to AlmaLinux migration tool" (github)
• "Firewalld: A Beginner's Guide" (AlmaLinux Wiki)
• "Multimedia Codecs Installation Guide" (AlmaLinux Wiki)
• "Frequently asked questions" (AlmaLinux Wiki)

Fedora

• TODO: Fedora links

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