CS155: Introduction to Unix
Spring 2018
Google is the best search engine ever. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s the right tool for all jobs.
Try Googling:
OK, fine—we can do better than that:
Great! That worked! Or … did it?
There are many versions of Linux. When you Google “linux cat”,
which version of cat does it tell you about?
manA better solution is to use the man command, from a terminal, like this:
man cat
It will tell you about the version of cat that’s installed
on your computer.
