Unix man

Where does the Unix man command look for documents?

Start by running

/usr/libexec/path_helper -s

That shows a standard MANPATH value

/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man

If you have man pages in other locations, just add them to the end of MANPATH, using standard *nix syntax.

ssh command-line mode and shell startup files

Apparently, if you do

ssh me@there:somepath “some cmd”

and your account is set up with ‘bash’ as your shell, only ~/.bashrc gets executed as a shell startup command

Ruby – Network Access

Alternatives to Net::HTTP

http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/644-net-http-alternatives