Hello!!

zyzyzyzy92 · 04-02-2013, 11:38 AM

Hello!! I'm not a total newbie with Linux. I'm played around with it before. But now it is time for me to sit down and actually learn as much as I can about Linux.

If you have any questions for me, I'll gladly answer them

jefro · 04-02-2013, 08:01 PM

Hello and welcome to LQ.

OK, lemme ask a question of you.

If I needed a quick answer to how a terminal command worked, what would I ask?

I mean in dos you can type help or dir /? but what is the way to see something like a short manual for a command in linux?

zyzyzyzy92 · 04-02-2013, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

Hello and welcome to LQ.

OK, lemme ask a question of you.

If I needed a quick answer to how a terminal command worked, what would I ask?

I mean in dos you can type help or dir /? but what is the way to see something like a short manual for a command in linux?

At the end of the terminal command put a space the "-h"
Or "-help" or "--help"

Slacker B. · 04-13-2013, 11:08 AM

You could also try typing "man <command>" like this:

man cd

or

man ls