NET 4000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.3: Grep, Mkdir, Man Man
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Help pages provide information about options and uses for linux shell commands. The following table describes the help options for a linux system: A manual (man) page is a text-based help file for a specific command, service, or configuration file. A man page shows the command"s syntax, options, and related files and commands. Man pages are typically stored in the /usr/man or /usr/share/man directory. Subdirectories store man pages for different types of commands or languages. The manpath environment variable is used on some distributions to identify the location where man pages are stored. Some distributions use the manpath_map directive in the /etc/man_db. conf file to specify the directories where man pages are stored. Use the -k option to search all man pages for a specific search term. A man page usually consists of several elements that are used to organize the information. The title section is the first line of the man page.
