I am relatively knew to Ubuntu and I want to learn about the chown command, so I tried to read the man chown but I find it very difficult to understand. Is there a document for this that is simpler and easier to understand?
Just saw someone referencing man 7 regex on Stackoverflow. I tried man regex and got very similar output - there appear to be slight differences.
So what is this magical number 7? Searching man 7 unix on Google gives me more mysterious results like UNIX(7)...
I think I understand the instructions given in How to add a directory to the PATH? about adding directories to $PATH. But I don't understand how to add directories to $MANPATH or $INFOPATH.
Also -- in googling around for help I have noticed that sometimes directions say export PATH=/usr/share/lib/something:$PATH and sometimes they say export PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/lib/something. Which is it?
I am packaging a program for ubuntu, And I am getting a lintian warning saying my binary needs a manpage.
How does one go about creating a manpage for a program?
Regarding man-pages and info help documentation:
Why do two such similar sources of documentation exist?
Sometimes a man-page is available and the info is not; or vice-versa.
I haven't yet latched on to the rhyme and reason behind it.
Maybe there is a significant difference between them, but even if there is, why do they both exist? It seems like unnecessary doubling up.