The man command of the Linux operating system is the system's documentation pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of a program, utility or function. For example, to see the reference manual of the grep program: man grep
In Linux the man command displays the help(man page) for a command. man fdisk is "display the man page for command fdisk"
The man command.
Try "man 5 passwd"
In terminal type: "man command", or "info command"
A command is an instruction from a user to get the computer to do something! A simple example: open a terminal and type the command "man man" (without the quotes) and the result will be the manual page of the man command.Note: The command ls stands for list the files in the current directory.
Using man ls will open the manual page for the ls command. The ls command lists the files and folders in the current directory.
apropos keyword
The man command is short for manual. For example: $ man ls will show the manual page for the lscommand (list files in current directory). Whilst $ man man will show the manual pages for man!
In Unix, use the 'man' command.
Use either the 'man' command or the 'info' command with ls to get more information on options and output.
"man" is part of Linux. You could try "info" if you really wanted.
The 'man' or the 'info' command have documentation about utilities and commands in the system.