Using the man command

You can use the man command to get help information about a shell command. The man syntax is:

man command_name

• To scroll the information in a man page, press <Enter>.
• To end the display of a man page, type q and press <Enter>.

To search for a particular string in a system that has a list of one-line command descriptions, use the -k option:

man -k string

For example, to produce a list of all the shell commands for editing, you could type:

man -k edit

You can use the man command to view descriptions of TSO/E commands. To do this, you must prefix all commands with tso. For example, to view a description of the MOUNT command, you would enter:

man tsomount

You can also use the man command to view descriptions of dbx subcommands. To do this, you must prefix all subcommands with dbx. For example, to view a description of the dbx alias subcommand, you would enter:

man dbxalias