2019-03-11 14:42:55 +00:00
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title: Bash Man
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## Man
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Man, the abbreviation of **man**ual, is a bash command used to display on-line reference manuals of the given command.
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Man displays the relative man page (short for **man**ual **page**) of the given command.
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### Usage
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```bash
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man [options] [command]
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```
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Most used options:
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* `-f`, print a short description of the given command
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* `-a`, display, in succession, all of the available intro manual pages contained within the manual
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* `-c`, reformat the source man page, used mostly when the page was formatted for a screen with a different number of columns
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### Examples
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#### Display the man page of ls
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```bash
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man ls
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```
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#### Display a short description of the shutdown command
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```bash
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man -f shutdown
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```
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### More information:
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* [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page)
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* [Linux](https://linux.die.net/man/1/man)
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