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The document discusses different commands that can be used at the Linux command prompt to get help and information about other commands. It explains how to use the man, apropos, whatis, and --help commands to view manual pages, search for commands, get one-line descriptions, and see command options. It also provides examples of using these help commands like man -k directories, apropos directories, whatis ls, and ls --help.

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The document discusses different commands that can be used at the Linux command prompt to get help and information about other commands. It explains how to use the man, apropos, whatis, and --help commands to view manual pages, search for commands, get one-line descriptions, and see command options. It also provides examples of using these help commands like man -k directories, apropos directories, whatis ls, and ls --help.

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ype at the command

For example, create a directory, we may not know the exact command, so we can
prompt
go to the comand prompt and type man space minus k space directories and
man -k directories press enter.

Now we can search each of these commands to see what we actually need.
The same thing can be achieved using apropos command.
Type at the command
Type at the command prompt apropos space directories and press enter to see the
prompt apropos
output.
directories
Some times we do not need too much details. We only need to know what a
command does. In that case we can use the whatis command or man -f. Both give
one line description about the command.
Go to the terminal
Go to the terminal type clear to clear the terminal window
Type at the command
prompt
clear

Type at the command


now type whatis space ls and press enter
prompt whatis ls
Some commands have many options. We may want to obtain a list of the different
options that a command has. Then we use the --help option.
Type at the command
prompt
Go to the command prompt and type ls space minus minus help and press enter
ls --help

I will scroll up so that u can see all the options on this manual page
Thats it for this part of the Linux Spoken tutorial. Spoken Tutorials are a part of
the Talk to a Teacher project, supported by the National Mission on Education
through ICT.
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More information on the same is available at the following link http://spoken-
tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro Thanks for joining us This is Anuradha Amrutkar
signing off. Good bye

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