After running 'man', can't get out?

nutshell · 02-26-2002, 02:12 AM

Hi,

Whenever i use 'man' to check out something, when i get what i want to know, how do i exit and return to the prompt where i can type again? I tried control + d, or + q. I tried control + z but i heard that i only puts it in the background. How do i really close it? I mean, how do i 'exit' man?

thnx

Mara · 02-26-2002, 02:18 AM

If there are many pages you get next one by pressing space. If it's really wrong try ctrl+c.

linuxcool · 02-26-2002, 02:47 AM

Try pressing the ' q ' key by itself.

nutshell · 02-26-2002, 03:21 AM

hehe q worked thnx

linuxcool · 02-26-2002, 03:28 AM

You're welcome.

nutshell · 02-26-2002, 03:42 AM

Is that the only way to get out besides control+z ?

I alwasy want to know things getting done in several ways.

thnx, if it's not too much trouble!

Mik · 02-26-2002, 08:38 AM

Run man man to find out all the commands when viewing man pages. q is just the command to terminate the man viewer. Ctrl-Z is used to suspend a process. This key is part of the shell and doesn't have anything to do with viewing the man pages. To kill a running process you would usually use Ctrl-C.

neo77777 · 02-26-2002, 09:01 AM

man's based off editor is vi in command mode, get a book on vi, and you'll get it.

Malicious · 02-26-2002, 02:13 PM

man pages are formatted and piped thru less for viewing. less has single key commands that are entered at the : prompt at the bottom of the page. q = quit, b = back a page, space = forward a page, etc.. Try h and see what you get.