New Linux User

Properly Exit Man

by Kyle on February 16th, 2007

If you’re unaware, “Man” is short for “manual” and is the help/usage file for pretty much all applications in Linux. Give man a try by typing the following into a terminal:

man firefox

Now for the most interesting part…I found the manual extremely difficult to exit. The “typical” CTRL+C command to exit the terminal application does not work for the manual. The solution is simple…just type the letter q. I know this is very obvious, but not being able to exit the manual was very frustrating to me for a very long time. As long as we’re talking about obvious terminal commands, type the following to figure out what user you are:

whoami

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