exec command

[CJ Tres]

On 01/14/2012 07:40 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:06 PM, CJ Tres<ctres at grics.net>  wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Colin, this helps.
>>
>> Don't know if it's true but years ago I read somewhere that man pages are
>> written by developers for developers.
>> I started reading man find, trying to locate what was relevant to my
>> application and was quickly overwhelmed - never-mind 1500 + lines.
>>
>> Makes me feel deficient when I see "read the man page" everywhere as if it
>> should make everything clear and I often end up more confused after reading
>> them.
>> Maybe if I dug into shell scripting it would help.
>>
>> I feel as if I was trying to understand all aspects of how an automatic
>> transmission operates so I can drive a car... still I continue to slog
>> through them when I have the time.
>
> The man/info pages cover all the arguments functionality of an
> installed executable file. You use only the arguments you need to. If
> you want "only to drive the car", as all do, you can just use a
> graphical environment like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc..
>
> You don't have to search for files via command line "find".
>
>

Yes, most often I just want to get a job done but I also like to get 
"under the hood" too.