Hai,

I want to know how can I come to know the version of the kernel as well as changing the label of a partition.

Hey Generally I wan to know how can I come to know a command from man? Ie can I give a little description about that and get the thing? Is there any option for it. Or is there any good help in Linux rather than the man?

A bunch of thanks in Advance.

Bye .

A good refernce is help.

e.g. :
vi --help

This displays the options for vi like
vi -R file.txt
to open the file.txt in readonly mode

Theres also "man -k <whateveryouwanttoknowabout>"

For instance:

man -k message

Returns:

catclose [catopen] (3) - open/close a message catalog
catgets (3) - get message from a message catalog
catopen (3) - open/close a message catalog
closelog [syslog] (3) - send messages to the system logger
encrypt (3) - Encrypt 64 bits messages
err (3) - formatted error messages
errx [err] (3) - formatted error messages
issue (5) - pre-login message and identification file
klogctl [syslog] (2) - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel
motd (5) - message of the day
msgctl (2) - message control operations
msgget (2) - get a message queue identifier
msgop (2) - message operations
openlog [syslog] (3) - send messages to the system logger
perror (3) - print a system error message
printk (9) - print messages to console log
psignal (3) - print signal message
recv (2) - receive a message from a socket
recvfrom [recv] (2) - receive a message from a socket
recvmsg [recv] (2) - receive a message from a socket
rtnetlink (3) - Macros to manipuate rtnetlink messages
send (2) - send a message from a socket
sendmsg [send] (2) - send a message from a socket
sendto [send] (2) - send a message from a socket
syslog (2) - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel
syslog (3) - send messages to the system logger
verr [err] (3) - formatted error messages
verrx [err] (3) - formatted error messages
vwarn [err] (3) - formatted error messages
vwarnx, [err] (3) - formatted error messages
warn [err] (3) - formatted error messages
warnx [err] (3) - formatted error messages


However "man -k subliminal" does not return the man page for xsublim.
Conspiracy(YES)? You decide

To know the version of the kernel type uname -r
Well as said man -k can easily give what you want
example: man -k browser
There is a better system called info pages.
Either you can browse info pages through xemacs(if you are comfortable with guis) or type pinfo in linux console.
The links are much the same as the vim pages.
That is p is previous u is up right arrow next link left arrow previous link / search and so on

Hai Thanks for the reply and Imthink it will be very helpful to me. Bye

heh it is all right
go on using the linux os