Day 1 - Getting help

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pattern command. Now exit the help, search for ignore and practise the search highlighting toggle

command.

Go to solution

This is enough for now. You learned how to get help about commands, so from now on you have a

tool to become a master of the Unix shell on your own. I still believe it is worth following the book,

though, so don’t close it now, there is a lot to learn that is not so easily distilled from man pages.

Oh, by the way. You can run man man, which despite the name is not a tome about the human

condition.

Suggested film for the evening: Manhunter (1986) - A film about a guy who desperately tries to find

man pages in a Unix system.