Chapter 1. Fundamental Commands for Managing Files and Getting Help

This chapter starts off with a few sections about how to use the online help facility within Solaris to obtain more information about commands and command syntax that I cover throughout this book.

Solaris provides several commands that display information about commands themselves, the system, and users on the system. It’s the system administrator’s responsibility to manage all of the system’s resources; therefore, it’s important that you understand how to access this information on your system.

This chapter describes how to access information about system commands while ...

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