- Online Help -

The following commands are useful for obtaining further information about commands from the online help systems.

man

The man command is used to access the online manual. It can be used in a number of ways, but the two most useful are

man command - which displays information about the command command, and

man -k keywords - which displays any header line that contains one of the specified keywords. This is useful if you can't remember or don't know the name of the command, but know what it is used for, or which to find out if there is a command that does keyword.

help

Typing help pattern will display helpful information about builtin commands. If pattern is specified, gives detailed help on all commands matching pattern, otherwise a list of the built-in commands is printed.

Page Created 6th March 2005.
Last Modified 1st April 2005.