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title: Bash Man
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## Man
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Man, the abbreviation of **man**ual, is a bash command used to display on-line reference manuals of the given command.
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Man displays the reletive man page (short for **man**ual **page**) of the given command.
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### Usage
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```bash
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man [options] [command]
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```
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Most used options:
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* `-f`, print a short description of the given command
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* `-a`, display, in succession, all of the available intro manual pages contained within the manual
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### Example
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Display the man page of ls:
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```bash
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man ls
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```
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#### More information:
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* Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page
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