Viewing a man page

Expertise level: Easy

Man page is used to format and display the online information about different commands and their usage.

You can view the man page of a command using the following procedure:

• Login with SSH as root.
• Type the command in the following format:

man <command>

• For example to see the man page for command ls, use the following command:

man ls 

This will display the man page of the command. You can use the keyboard to move through the pages.