MAN Pages

Within Linux and FreeBSD are a series of help documents called man pages. These documents have a vast amount of information on running commands and the switches/paramaters that commands can take.

To find out about a certain command, enter: "man commandname" from the shell prompt. This will bring up the man page for the command. If you don't know which command you want/need to run, enter: "man -k searchstring" instead. This will show a list of man pages which include the item you are looking for.