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Summary

In this chapter, you learned:

  • Man pages are viewed with the man command and provide information on components of a Linux system, such as files, commands, and functions.

  • By convention, when referring to a man page the name of a page is followed by its section number in parentheses.

  • Info documents are viewed with the pinfo command and are made up of a collection of hypertext nodes, providing information about software packages as a whole.

  • The navigational keystrokes used by man and pinfo are slightly different.

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