On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +0000, Eric S Fraga wrote: > And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about > commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any > interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to > present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manual > in early unix days) for individual commands, e.g. > > man bash > > which will describe in quite some detail how to use the shell and > > man -k somekeyword > > will allow to search man pages. > > bash itself also has a help system: type "help" :-)
Good points -- as a tip, turn things around: first try "help foo", then "man foo" whenever you don't know whether what you have is a builtin or a command. And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both. Cheers -- t
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