MS

• May 6th, 2007

 

To display help text for a Unix command from the Unix system manual.

shivukinagi

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• Nov 29th, 2009

 

This is the command where one can access the full book of help. man also resembles the manual or help for the user.

Sonali Sehgal

• Jan 15th, 2013

 

Man is also a UNIX command like ls or cat.I am also updating the UNIX a few examples for the man command.
The POSIX specification requires man to support only one option (-k) and most of the UNIX systems also offers the apropos command that emulates man -k.When used with this option it prints the one line description of the command that emulates man-k.When used with this option,man searches summary database and prints a one liner description of the command.

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• Apr 19th, 2015

 

Its like a manual which informs how to use various commands available in *nix systems.
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You can create a man command for your own scripts also. It requires a particular format for inside the file. It needs to be placed in particular directory to be readable by man command