Manual Pages: Online Documentation
Many system administrators under utilize the capabilities used to search for and locate information about UNIX commands. As a result, they miss out on some of the commands available to them, or they don’t know about the options available with some of the more common commands. This section describes the methods that can be used to locate and display information about commands. This information will help you to be more productive.
The online documentation provided for each UNIX command is referred to as the system’s “manual pages,” or “man pages” for short. The man command displays information from the man pages, which are very useful if you know which command you want to use but forgot how to use it.
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