From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Bash
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Reading man - Bash Tutorial
From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Bash
Reading man
- [Instructor] So you've pretty much figured out apropos, but what if you've never used man before? Well, no problem. By passing any command through man, you'll get the executable's man page, if one exists for that command. A page of all of the useful information about how to use man is available by typing man man in terminal window and reading the man page on man. This gives you many pro tips for managing man pages and how to use things. You press Q to get out of that display. So let's see how this would work in action. Let's say we wanted to learn commands to work with Kerberos. We'd type apropos kerberos. This gives us a list of all of the commands that are related to kerberos. Notice in the list we have Klist here. If we simply run man klist, we get the manual page on the klist command. Press Q to get out of that as well. You may have noticed, we'll run that again, that at the bottom of the klist man page, there…
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