This, exactly, is why using unix is so hard for beginners.
I vividly remember being extremely frustrated because every forum post on the topic seemed to assume you understood what they were asking you to do.
Man pages can be read by opening a terminal/console window and typing in ‘man [command]’, then pressing enter. Generally you can scroll through them with up/down arrow and pgup/down.
Normally the man page name is the same as the command, so I’m not sure how anyone would discover the one for gittutorial.
> Generally you can scroll through them with up/down arrow and pgup/down.
Or even your scroll wheel! :D
> Normally the man page name is the same as the command, so I’m not sure how anyone would discover the one for gittutorial.
At the bottom of every man page there is a SEE ALSO section:
SEE ALSO
gittutorial(7), gittutorial-2(7), giteveryday(7), gitcvs-migration(7), gitglossary(7), gitcore-tutorial(7), gitcli(7), The Git User’s Manual[1], gitworkflows(7)
This is as close to clickable links as man gets; if you want actual links you could run “info git” instead. There is also occasionally a NOTES section:
NOTES
1. Git User’s Manual
file:///usr/share/doc/git/user-manual.html
2. Trace2 documentation
file:///usr/share/doc/git/technical/api-trace2.html
3. Git concepts chapter of the user-manual
file:///usr/share/doc/git/user-manual.html#git-concepts
4. howto
file:///usr/share/doc/git/howto-index.html
5. Git API documentation
file:///usr/share/doc/git/technical/api-index.html
It also happens to mention gittutorial(7) and giteveryday(7) in the second sentence of the description, way back at the top of the man page. These are above the fold even in an 80×24 terminal.
I vividly remember being extremely frustrated because every forum post on the topic seemed to assume you understood what they were asking you to do.
Man pages can be read by opening a terminal/console window and typing in ‘man [command]’, then pressing enter. Generally you can scroll through them with up/down arrow and pgup/down.
Normally the man page name is the same as the command, so I’m not sure how anyone would discover the one for gittutorial.