Using the man command to get online help

Use the man command to get help information about a shell command. The man page is displayed in your shell session, and you can work in the shell while viewing the 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.

To view a description of the MOUNT command, 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, enter:

man dbxalias

For complete information about the man command, see the man command description in z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference.