[CentOS] programs with no man pages?

[Scott Silva]

on 2-25-2009 10:29 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 2-25-2009 9:50 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
>>> I accidentally typed ss instead of ls and was surprised when it did 
>>> something...  I can use rpm's --whatprovides to see where it came from, 
>>> but how are you supposed to find out want a program does when it doesn't 
>>> have a man page?
>>>
>> ss is part of iproute. It is similar to netstat.
> 
> Yeah, but where's the 'teach a man to fish...'?
> 
Jim Perrin tried to teach you to fish, but as you found out, there are a lot
of fish in lake Google!

OK.. Here is the fishing lesson.

"which ss" gives you a path

"yum provides /usr/sbin/ss" gives you a package name

"ls /usr/share/doc/$packagename" gives you some files to look at.

in that listing was ss.ps. Find a way to open or read ss.ps like gv or ggv and
you have some info.


CSI it ain't!



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