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Locate, read, and use system documentation

Locate, read, and use system documentation

From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Locate, read, and use system documentation

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- [Instructor] I'm going to make mine full screen and bump the font size. Type in ls --help and hit Enter. The --help information is built into most Linux commands so it will always be available. If the output is too long, use the scroll bar or press Shift + Page up, to scroll up. At the top of the output of ls --help, it shows the command syntax or usage. - -help doesn't work for all commands. For instance, cd --help, results in an error message. The reason for this is that cd is built into the Bash shell so it doesn't exist as a separate command on the disk. For those commands built into the Bash shell, we can use the help command to get the syntax. Type in help cd and hit Enter. Between the --help option and the help command, we should be able to get quick help on most any command. Let's type clear to clear the screen. Usually the documentation offered by --help or the help command is brief. Most…

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