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title: Bash Man
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## Man

Man, the abbreviation of **man**ual, is a bash command used to display on-line reference manuals of the given command.

Man displays the relative man page (short for **man**ual **page**) of the given command.

### Usage

```bash
man [options] [command]
```

Most used options:

* `-f`, print a short description of the given command
* `-a`, display, in succession, all of the available intro manual pages contained within the manual

### Example

Display the man page of ls:

```bash
man ls
```

#### More information:

* Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page