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Man
Man, the abbreviation of manual, is a bash command used to display on-line reference manuals of the given command.
Man displays the relative man page (short for manual page) of the given command.
Usage
man [options] [command]
Most used options:
-f
, print a short description of the given command-a
, display, in succession, all of the available intro manual pages contained within the manual-c
, reformat the source man page, used mostly when the page was formatted for a screen with a different number of columns-l
, enabling case sensitivity
Examples
Display the man page of ls
man ls
Display a short description of the shutdown command
man -f shutdown
Display the man page of ASCII table:
man ascii