Notes:
Or, you could use the “ info ” command:
$ info <command>
info Displays online documentation about the target.
In the examples above, substitute <command> with the command you want to find out more about. A word of warning: the guidance given by “ man ” is sometimes a bit formal and very, very detailed. You could almost say, “If you think you know a command then go to the command’s man page in order to find out that you don’t really.”
To find out more about Bash, take a look at its Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29
Typing “man apt-get” into the command line
returned all this information on the “apt-get” command and how to use it.
“Man” is short for manual.
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