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Bug
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Resolution: Done
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Minor
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RH124 - RH124-RHEL9.3-en-2-20250415, RH124 - RHEL10.0-en-2-20250709
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False
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Section Title: | 3.2 GE Get help from Manual Pages |
Issue description
Step 7 of this GE uses the `whereis` command which is not introduced in the lecture.
Students asked in class about this command and were a bit confused about the usefulness of this tool.
I would suggest dropping this step altogether.
One useful tool to mention would be the whatis command. This is the equivalent of `man -f`. It provides very nice one-line summaries of commands:
student@workstation:~$ whatis cut cut (1) - remove sections from each line of files student@workstation:~$ whatis grep grep (1) - print lines that match patterns student@workstation:~$ whatis wc wc (1) - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
We do talk about `apropos` searches so why skip `whatis`? Both are native `man` command "flavors".
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