How to see help pages for commands

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How to see help pages for commands

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Plimsol	May 7 2004, 11:59 AM Post #1
Guests	If you would like to see a help page for a particular command then you would use the man program. This program will display the help file for the particular command you use as the argument. For example to see the help file for the df command you would type: CODE man df

raw View Member Profile	May 7 2004, 04:53 PM Post #2
Bleeping Hacker Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,929 Joined: 14-April 04 From: Texas Member No.: 151	Good tip... also if you need help with man try man man -------------------- HOSTFix

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