man (Display Manual)
The man
(MANual) command is used to display manuals of commands. When you would like to see the list of options for a command, the man
command can be useful.
Open a manual of a command
To open a manual, run the man
command with the command name. For example, to display a manual of grep, run man grep
.
man grep
Close a manual
To close a manual, press the q key.