Exit man (elegantly)

verstapp · 03-01-2004, 07:00 PM

Being a newbie I use man a lot nut have yet to find how to exit elegantly. Getting to the end of a topic and hitting <space> again gets me a beep, as does hitting ESC and ctrl-c. The only way I've found to get back to the command line is to hit ctrl-z. And then one day I ran ps and found 20 or 30 copies of man clogging up memory.
Anyone know how to actually exit man?

chii-chan · 03-01-2004, 07:02 PM

Hi!

Hit 'Q'....

slakmagik · 03-01-2004, 07:29 PM

You're probably using 'less' as your pager. Check out the 'less' man page or, while using man (or less directly) hit 'h' to find out some options. I couldn't get by without '/' and some others.