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Bash Man

Man

Man, the abbreviation of manual, is a bash command used to display on-line reference manuals of the given command.

Man displays the reletive 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

Example

Display the man page of ls:

man ls

More information:

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page