Thread: How to display "detailed" help for commands
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2008-06-16 , 05:39
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Originally Posted by emmaitt View Post
I can put a "-help" after each command to see its syntax. However , it doesn't give me an explanation of what each option means. Is there a way to get the explanation in xterm? Or do I have to refer to some web pages for the explanation and usage of each command?
Usually you can look it up with man <command> put the tablet do not include manpages to save space, so just look it up on Google (wikipedia has decent coverage of most *nix commands, and there are html manpages available pretty much everywhere.
 

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