MAN Pages

On most Linux systems there are what are called manual pages, man pages for short. Man pages are a set of built in instructions about Linux commands and some simple software packages. Here on Eos/Unity we have two ways of using man pages. The first is a command and the second is a software package.

Man by Command

The best time to use man as a command line program is when you know about a certain command but want to find out a bit more about it before you use it. In this case you would use it as follows:

Syntax

eos% man commandname

If there is information to display about the command you asked about it will display it using more so that you can scroll through the information that is there. If there is not any information (such as if you enter a bogus command name) then it will tell you "No manual entry for commandname."

The following is what a man cd would give you:

This is only the first page of several of information that the man page has about the command cd.