Documentation

Question 1

Manual section purposes

Answer 1

Most Unix documentation can be read from the command line.

Classic manual sections:

• user commands (1),
• system calls (2), subroutine API provided by kernel directly
• library functions (3) implemented by user space
• devices (4) - device drivers
• file formats (5) - … used by the kernel
  e. g. printf in 3 as a C library function (man 3 printf) but for the command line tool printf (man 1 printf) otherwise just get lowest numbered volume that knows this keyword.

Question 2

man page

Answer 2

1. synopsis

2. list of commands and options

Question 3

output man page as postscript/html

Answer 3

xman - offers table of contents

info - use n/p/u to navigate tree, move to line and press enter to follow link.
Pressing spacebar – goes to end of page / go to next page

Question 4

further documentation if there isn’t a man page or info page

Answer 4

/usr/share/doc or Web

Question 5

Help/documentation browsers

Answer 5

man, apropos, xman, info

Question 6

Plaintext file viewer

Answer 6

more, less

Question 7

list/traverse directories, search

Answer 7

ls, find

Question 8

copy, move/rename, remove, renew

files, link/shortcut files

Answer 8

cp, mv, rm, touch, ln

Question 9

make/remove directories

Answer 9

mkdir, rmdir

Question 10

concatenate/split files

Answer 10

cat, dd, head, tail

Question 11

examine disk space used and free

Answer 11

du, df, quota, rquota

Question 12

process table and system load

Answer 12

ps, top, free, uptime, w

Question 13

interactive editors

Answer 13

vi, emacs, pico

Question 14

C compilers

Answer 14

cc, gcc

Question 15

project builder

Answer 15

make

Question 16

compare files, apply patches

Answer 16

cmp, diff, patch

Question 17

revision control systems

Answer 17

rcs, cvs, svn, git, hg, bzr

Question 18

debuggers

Answer 18

adb, gdb

Question 19

scripting languages

Answer 19

awk, perl, python, tcl

Question 20

macro processors

Answer 20

m4, cpp

Question 21

edit streams, replace characters

Answer 21

sed, tr

Question 22

sort/search lines of text, extract columns

Answer 22

sort, grep, cut

Question 23

text formatters

Answer 23

nroff, troff, tex, latex

Question 24

electronic mail user agents

Answer 24

mail, pine, mh, exmh, elm

Question 25

network tools

Answer 25

telnet, ftp, rlogin, finger,
talk, ping, traceroute, wget,
curl, ssh, scp, rsync, hostname,
host, ifconfig, route

Question 26

VT100 terminal emulator

Answer 26

xterm

Question 27

file packaging and compression

Answer 27

tar, cpio, compress, zip, gzip,

bzip2

Question 28

builtin shell commands

Answer 28

echo, cd, pushd, popd, exit,

ulimit, time, history

Question 29

builtin shell job control

Answer 29

fg, bg, jobs, kill

Question 30

clocks

Answer 30

date, xclock

Question 31

locate command file

Answer 31

which, whereis

Question 32

clear screen, reset terminal

Answer 32

clear, reset

Question 33

configure terminal driver

Answer 33

stty

Question 34

graphics file viewers

Answer 34

display, ghostview, okular

Question 35

graphics drawing tools

Answer 35

xfig, tgif, gimp, inkscape

Question 36

graphics format converters

Answer 36

topnm, pnmto, [cd] jpeg

Question 37

calculator

Answer 37

bc

Question 38

change your password

Answer 38

passwd

Question 39

change file permissions

Answer 39

chmod

Question 40

scanner/parser generators

Answer 40

lex, yacc, flex, bison