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man command

Purpose

Displays manual entries online.

Syntax

man Command

Description

The man command provides reference information on commands specified by name.

Exit Status

This command returns the following exit values:

0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.

Examples

  1. To display information about the grep command, enter: 
    man grep

Related Information

The more command.

Parent topic: Virtual I/O Server and Integrated Virtualization Manager commands listed alphabetically
Parent topic: Standard shell commands
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Last updated: Fri, Oct 30, 2009