man

man is another one of those commands that is prepended to another. This time however, it tells you how to use the command that its prepended to as long as you have the man-docs installed for that command. It will tell you all the gritty details like what arguments the command takes as well as some explanations for the behavior of the command. Some basic examples include:

• This prints the usage of the sudo command to the CLI
  • man sudo
• This prints the usage of the cd command to the CLI
  • man cd

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