Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:00:39PM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:

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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?

On a slightly more helpful note, once you know the name of the rpm which provided the package, you can use 'rpm -qd packagename' to see

Or, using the "f" option % rpm -qdf /usr/sbin/ss

Which could be combined with a simple grep:

% grep -lw ss $(rpm -qdf /usr/sbin/ss) /usr/share/doc/iproute-2.6.18/RELNOTES /usr/share/doc/iproute-2.6.18/ss.ps

They're the 2 files I'd look at!