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ch03s02 - GE Get help from Manual Pages

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      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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