Difference between help, info and man command
I know that these command will help to get syntax and options for commands but my question is that how they differ from each other?
man
Documentation on LESS_TERMCAP_* variables?
I see these pretty colors in manpages viewed with less when setting a bunch of these variables. What do they mean, where is the documentation? Is this interpreted by less or termcap?
Why do some commands have man pages and other commands use –help?
Wouldn’t it be more consistent if one of these always worked?
How to dump a man page?
How can I ‘cat’ a man page like I would ‘cat’ a file to get just a dump of the contents?
Grep: unexpected results when searching for words in heading from man page
I’m running into weird behavior when trying to grep a man page on macOS. For example, the Bash man page clearly has an occurrence of the string NAME:
View a man page in a specific section
I wanted to access man pages for command chmod.
What is GNU Info for?
I understand what GNU Info is and how to use it, but what is it for? Why does it exist in parallel to the man pages? Why not write detailed man pages rather than provide a separate utility?
How can I add man page entries for my own power tools?
I have no idea about how I can make my home-grown specialist scripts (written mostly in Bash and Perl) available through the man pages.
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
We’ve noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message