Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> 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 > The bash man page is often rather too lengthy to find what one wants easily. For bash built-in commands it's often more useful to try 'help <command>' as you don't then have to wade through the *huge* bash man page to find what you want.
For example 'help cd' gives a nice man page like summary of how to use cd. -- Chris Green ยท
