7 Tips To Effectively Use the Man Page in Linux

Quickly find an option description, navigate through the man page, and more

Shinichi Okada
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readApr 6, 2021

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Introduction

The man page is software documentation for Unix or Unix-like operating systems. It displays online manual pages. Here, online means on the computer, not on the internet. Some commands have tens of thousand of…

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