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Question 1

What is the command to get a manual page on a command?

Answer 1

man

Question 2

What is the command to search for keywords in man pages containing a specific command?

Answer 2

whatis
man -k
apropos

Question 3

How do you rebuild the keywords database in the event additional man pages have been added to the system?

Answer 3

mandb (ubuntu)

makewhatis (RHEL/FBSD)

Question 4

How do you display the current default search path for man?

Answer 4

manpath

Question 5

How do you find out the location of an installed binary?

Answer 5

which
whereis
* which uses shell’s search path, whereis is independant of this

Question 6

What is a builtin command to find a file using the systems database inventory?

Answer 6

locate

* database is updated periodically with the updatedb command located in cron

Question 7

How do you search packages on the system?

Answer 7

rpm -q

Question 8

How do you find what package a file belongs to?

Answer 8

rpm -qf

i.e rpm -qf /etc/ssh