Saturday, May 09, 2009

0002 GETTING HELP FOR LINUX COMMANDS.

In vast command world of linux, no one can know all the commands., or no one can remember all the options/switches available for all commands. So it is very important to learn how to get help for the commands available.
Their are different ways of getting help in linux machines.

  • Getting short and fast help (for intermediate users) is adding "-h" or "--help" with command as follows

#vim -h

#ls --help

  • Detailed information about any command is using a manual pages or info pages.
Say if you want help of "ls" command

#man ls

#info ls

#pinfo ls

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