How do I access that basic command line tutorial man document?
Solution 1:
You are looking for the man intro
. Just type
man intro
This will open the first man intro
section, the one that you are (I will stab a guess) most likely interested in. To view all man intro
sections type
man -a intro
and you will be prompted to view them all, unless you decide to quit.
Solution 2:
man intro
is the right answer here. But to be a bit more general, if you want to search all manpages for particular keywords, you can use man -wK
.
In particular, you knew that the page you were looking for contained the word "baroque", which is a nice specific search term:
$ man -wK baroque
/usr/share/man/man1/intro.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zshmodules.1.gz
$
If you want to jump directly to the manpages in the results, in turn, simply use man -K
instead.
Note that the -K
option is a brute-force search through all manpages, so can take some time. In my case it takes 20-25 seconds on my Ubuntu VM.