Cat Command

[Freddie Cash]

On Wed, March 15, 2006 10:44 am, Brad De Vries wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Back in the /dev/null discussion there was some talk of the "cat"
>> command (or something like that).  What's that?  I'm not familiar
>> with that and I lost my "Linux in a Nutshell" book about a week ago.
>> I suspect it's hiding behind my other books on my desk, but I
>> haven't looked yet.

>> Also, I started a blog about my adventures in learning more about
>> Linux.  It's at www.thedarkesttower.blogspot.com in case anybody's
>> interested.

> There's been a lot of talk about using the "man" (manual) subsystem.
> I'd like to add to that slightly.  Using KDE, you can hit <ALT><F2>
> (or K --> Run Command) and type "man:/cat" to bring up the manual
> page for the "cat" command.  This will work for virtually any
> command. Try these for fun:

> man:/intro  (shows the intro manual page)
> man:/man  (shows the man manual page)
> man:/  (shows a list of manual sections as available links)

And the links to other man pages are actually hyperlinks that you can
just click on.

Works with info:/ pages as well.

And (K)Ubuntu includes a locate:/ IO Slave that lets you run locate
searches from within Konqueror.

> This functionality is run through the Konqueror browser, so you can
> easily just type the command into any Konqueror session you currently
> have running.

You can also use man:/path/to/man/page if you have man pages stored in
other directories, or copies of man pages from other systems.

I have copies of all the FreeBSD man pages on my system Debian system.
 Rather than spam my MANPATH or trying to use -m with man, I just use
Konqueror:
    man:/usr/local/freeman/man1/ipfw.1.gz
Gives me the nicely formatted man page in the browser.  For the most
part, the links work, but not always.

I/O Slaves have got to be the nicest feature of KDE.

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