Getting Help

Every command can explain itself, with --help for a short list of its options and man for its full manual page, type and which tell you what kind of command a name is, and an error message says what went wrong when you read it one part at a time.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson Getting Help: Every command can explain itself, with --help for a short list of its options and man for its full manual page, type and which tell you what kind of command a name is, and an error message says what went wrong when you read it one part at a time.
Category
Bash
Level
Apprentice
Tags
alias, linux, man, shell-builtin, unix, wc, which