Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

The man command

One of the most important commands, which is going to become handy to you in the future, is the man command. It stands for manual. The man command can be used to query and get the manual of any other command. For example, we just used the ls command to list all of the directories that exist in the current working directory:

man ls

After running this command, it will show us the manual for the ls command. And, as we can see, it's showing us that ls is used to list content, because it lists files and directories. We can also see that this command actually takes options, so it takes more options than just the ls command:

In the ...