Re: Exiting man pages display

[Michael Dambock <dambock zaz com br>]

It's very simple, just press the < Q > key

Michael Dambock

Dom Bekarge wrote:

> Newbie question:
>
> How does one exit a man page gracefully?
>
> I just installed RedHat Linux 6 (Hedwig) and logged in as root.
> I used character mode, and did not use startx to launch a graphical shell.
>
> Since I am a Unix novice, I began to read some man pages about
> some of the command line commands like ls, etc.
>
> I typed
>
> man ls
>
> and got the man help screens regarding the ls command.
>
> The screens moved forward when I pressed the Enter or Spacebar keys.
>
> At the end of the man pages for ls, the bottom line of the screen showed
>
> (EXIT)
>
> in reverse video highlight.
>
> Some experimentation showed two ways to exit the man pages:
>
> 1.  Ctrl+Alt+Del, but this shuts down the system.
> 2.  Ctrl+Z
>
> After reading several different man pages, I noticed that Ctrl+Z
> would return me to the command prompt, but a counter would appear
> like
>
> [1]+
>
> and the next time
>
> [2]+
>
> and so on.
>
> Am I exiting the man pages properly?
>
> What is this counter?
>
> Does the counter suggest that I am stacking processes or shells
> similar to MS-DOS command /c ?
>
> Dom Bekarge
> <dbekarge netzero net>
>
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