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man works for commands, system calls, library routines, I/O devices, or administrative files.

Important command-line options for man:

man -s section topic

e.g: man -s 4 passwd

man -k keyword (equivalent to apropos)

(man config file could be /etc/man.config)

MANPATH (a variable) - list of where man should search.

info = another manual page sytem.

whatis: One-line command summaries

whatis is almost identical to apropos or man -k but it requires a command name as an argument.

e.g: whatis cat

      cat (iv)      concatenate and display

The whatis command is equivalent to man -f on most systems.

Before running whatis the first time on your system, you'll want to run makewahtis at /usr/libexec/makewhatis for creating the whatis database.

Free Shell providers' list pages:

http://www.bylur.net/free/

http://www.ductape.net/~mitja/freeunix.shtml

http://www.devilix.net/freeshells/

http://shellsnet.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Free+Providers+List

• Narf? : http://www.devilix.net/freeshells/
• Mitja? : http://www.ductape.net/~mitja/freeunix.shtml
• Ashen? : http://www.mlg3.net/shells/links.php
• Throstur? : http://www.bylur.net/free
• Freeshell? : http://www.freeshell.biz/
• Mutebox? : http://list.mutebox.net/

http://forums.egghelp-bg.com/index.php?showtopic=5

http://www.egghelp.org/shells.htm

http://thinkunix.net/unix/

http://www.armory.com/~spectre/shell/