December 2009
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Linux MAN pages in paper/pdf format?
admin 15 Dec 2009 | : Uncategorized
As a professional web developer, the benefits of using a Linux platform for development
have been quite obvious to me for quite some time. Not only is there a vast range of
open source tools at your disposal to help you in the development process, such as IDE’s
and graphics editor’s but the community support for certain distro’s such as Ubuntu
is extraordinarily good.
As a Linux user, like many other I take advantage of the Linux man pages. When I’m unsure
how to use a particular command line tool or command simply typing man <commandname>
will display the manual page for that command.
A few months ago I decided that it would be good for my career if I was to study for the Linux
LPIC-1 (Linux Professional Institute) certification. I have bought several books to help me, however
I thought it would be a nice resource to have either a paper copy (or even a pdf) of the Linux MAN pages.
So far, to my dismay, I have been unsuccessful in locating either format of this handy resource, All I
have been able to find is the software version. There must be a PDF somewhere, I’ll have to keep looking…
