(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.65

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 .\" Copyright (c) 2002 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" 2007-10-23 mtk Added intro paragraph about section, plus a paragraph
 .\"     about exit status values.
 .\"
 .TH INTRO 1 2007-11-15 "Linux" "Linux User's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-intro \- Introduction to user commands
+intro \- introduction to user commands
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Section 1 of the manual describes user commands and tools,
 for example, file manipulation tools, shells, compilers,
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ tell the computer what to do.
 That is faster and more powerful,
 but requires finding out what the commands are.
 Below a bare minimum, to get started.
-.SS "Login"
+.SS Login
 In order to start working, you probably first have to login,
 that is, give your username and password.
 See also
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ In case of a graphical login, you get a screen with menus or icons
 and a mouse click will start a shell in a window.
 See also
 .BR xterm (1).
-.SS "The shell"
+.SS The shell
 One types commands to the
 .IR shell ,
 the command interpreter.
@@ -135,11 +137,11 @@ maja    0501\-1136285
 and here typing Control-D ended the session.
 The
 .B "% "
-here was the command prompt \(em it is the shell's way of indicating
+here was the command prompt\(emit is the shell's way of indicating
 that it is ready for the next command.
 The prompt can be customized
 in lots of ways, and one might include stuff like username,
-machine name, current directory, time, etc.
+machine name, current directory, time, and so on.
 An assignment PS1="What next, master? "
 would change the prompt as indicated.
 .LP
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ We see that there are commands
 .LP
 The command
 .I ls
-lists the contents of the current directory \(em it tells you what
+lists the contents of the current directory\(emit tells you what
 files you have.
 With a
 .I \-l
@@ -194,7 +196,7 @@ The command
 .I grep
 (from "g/re/p") finds occurrences of a string in one or more files.
 Here it finds Maja's telephone number.
-.SS "Pathnames and the current directory"
+.SS Pathnames and the current directory
 Files live in a large tree, the file hierarchy.
 Each has a
 .I "pathname"
@@ -202,8 +204,8 @@ describing the path from the root of the tree (which is called /)
 to the file.
 For example, such a full pathname might be /home/aeb/tel.
 Always using full pathnames would be inconvenient, and the name
-of a file in the current directory may be abbreviated by only giving
-the last component.
+of a file in the current directory may be abbreviated by giving
+only the last component.
 That is why "/home/aeb/tel" can be abbreviated
 to "tel" when the current directory is "/home/aeb".
 .LP
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ The command
 .I cd
 changes the current directory.
 Try "cd /" and "pwd" and "cd" and "pwd".
-.SS "Directories"
+.SS Directories
 The command
 .I mkdir
 makes a new directory.
@@ -235,18 +237,18 @@ of the tree.
 Large searches on a multi-GB disk will be time-consuming,
 and it may be better to use
 .BR locate (1).
-.SS "Disks and Filesystems"
+.SS Disks and filesystems
 The command
 .I mount
-will attach the file system found on some disk (or floppy, or CDROM or so)
-to the big file system hierarchy.
+will attach the filesystem found on some disk (or floppy, or CDROM or so)
+to the big filesystem hierarchy.
 And
 .I umount
 detaches it again.
 The command
 .I df
 will tell you how much of your disk is still free.
-.SS "Processes"
+.SS Processes
 On a UNIX system many user and system processes run simultaneously.
 The one you are talking to runs in the
 .IR foreground ,
@@ -264,7 +266,7 @@ request: please go away.
 And "kill \-9" followed by the number
 of the process is an immediate kill.
 Foreground processes can often be killed by typing Control-C.
-.SS "Getting information"
+.SS Getting information
 There are thousands of commands, each with many options.
 Traditionally commands are documented on
 .IR "man pages" ,
@@ -297,5 +299,13 @@ and use a browser if you find HTML files there.
 .\"
 .\" Actual examples? Separate section for each of cat, cp, ...?
 .\" gzip, bzip2, tar, rpm
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR standards (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.