On 5/31/2011 3:43 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:26, John R. Dennison<jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:10:40AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Thanks, all. I did actually look at the grep manpage but after a few >>> screenfuls it became tl;dr and I started just skimming. I suppose that >>> I skimmed too fast! >> >> Um.... >> >> It's the first option described. >> > > I see now that the server's grep manpage (CentOS) does in fact put it > right there at the top. I usually pull up manpages on localhost, not > what I'm SSHing into, and on this Debian-Derived distro it is buried > halfway down the third page of nine. That is interesting, and I'm sure > that there is a lesson to be learned from that! > One help might be to use the slash key to search the man page. /lines[enter] Then use 'n' or 'N' to search forward/backward.