Manuals for commands

man <cmd> : Open man page of command.

• space : go ahead page by page.
• b : go back page by page.
• q : quit.
• Enter : go line by line.
• /<word> : search a word in man.
• n : go to the next expression that you search.
• N : go back to search expression.

man -k <key word> : look for in all man for your key words.
man -k <word1>.*<word2> : “.*” allow to search several words.
whatis <cmd> : give short explaination about the command.

Man Sections

man -a : look in all sections.
man -s : to specify which sections.

NB: by default the search is done in section 1 but in fact there is 3 sections.

• Section 1 : user´s commands
• Section 2 : system calls
• Section 3 : Library fonctions
  • 3c : Library C
  • 3m : Library math
  • 3n : Library network

Change Manual language

1yum install man-pages-fr 
2locale 
3LANG = fr_FR_UTF-8
4locale