Using Man Pages
To learn more about a command or program, use the man
command followed by the name of the command. Man pages are stored in places like /usr/share/man
and /usr/local/share/man
, but you don’t need to know that. To read a man page, such as the one for the rm
command, use the man
command like this:
matthew@seymour:~$ man rm
After you press Enter, the less
command (a Linux command known as a pager) displays the man page. The less
command is a text browser you can use to scroll forward and backward (even sideways) through the document to learn more about the command. Type the letter h
to get help, use the forward slash (/
) to enter a search string, or press q
to quit.
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