La commande man affiche une aide relative à une commande.
Exemple :
beyrouth ~/doc/unix $ man man
man(1) man(1)
NAME
man - format and display the on-line manual pages
manpath - determine user's search path for man pages
SYNOPSIS
man [-adfhkKtwW] [-m system] [-p string] [-C config_file]
[-M path] [-P pager] [-S section_list] [section] name ...
DESCRIPTION
man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This
version knows about the MANPATH and (MAN)PAGER environment
variables, so you can have your own set(s) of personal man
pages and choose whatever program you like to display the
formatted pages. If section is specified, man only looks
in that section of the manual. You may also specify the
order to search the sections for entries and which prepro-
cessors to run on the source files via command line
options or environment variables. If name contains a /
then it is first tried as a filename, so that you can do
man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.
:
beyrouth ~/doc/unix $
C'est la commande la plus importante que vous ayez à connaıtre.