Getting Help
From Initq
There are many ways of getting help in the Bash shell. Following are a few ways.
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help
help -s
Display a summery for the command you specify.
qais@qais:~$ help -s printf printf: printf [-v var] format [arguments]
man
man stands for manual pages. Linux divides its manual pages into a number of logical volumes.Volume 1 contains commands you can execute from the shell.
- man 1 date
-k
search for particular keyword and list all man pages referring to that keyword.
- man 1 -k alias
-a
match across all manual volumes.
