Chapter 19
Getting Command Help (man, HELP)
19.1 Do This
19.2 You Learned This
You can use the man command on Unix, and the help command in Windows to find information about commands. I've been playing a very dirty trick on you this whole time. I could have just told you to do this and read about each command rather than memorize what they do. But, if I did this, you'd be lost because you wouldn't know the basic commands you have to know, or how directories work, or what a wildcard is, etc etc.
Hopefully you forgive me for not telling you about this awesome tool until now, but now when you forget what a command does, just use the help.
19.3 Do More
- Use man or help to look at every one of the commands you have in your list to memorize.
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