The syntax for drawing a manpage is man . Don t know the command you re looking for or need basic information aboutusing the manpage system? Just type man manto get started. When you refinished reading the man page, press Q to exit. Clearing the screenThe clearand resetcommands are handy to know about when you reworking in a shell. The clearcommand simply wipes the bashscreen clean. Don t worry; it s not deleting any files or changing any settings it s justtidying up so that you can start dumping new stuff to the screen again. The resetcommand is a little more interesting. Suppose that you try listinga binary file to the screen with the catcommand. After the computer finishespuking the result of executing the catcommand on a binary file, you may getlucky and still be able to read your prompt. More likely, your prompt hasbeen rendered into box characters of no special meaning, and typing on thekeyboard gives you more of the same. To get back to normal, just type resetand press Enter. Note that it doesn t look like you re typing the word reset, but rest assured that the computer understands the series of characters and, after a couple seconds, should restore your shell environment to your nativelanguage. 291Chapter 14: Working without the GUI20_
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