man [OPTIONS]
man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. If you specify section, man only looks in that section of the manual. name is normally the name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command, function, or file.
Searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords. You can use this to find the name of the command, which you can do a man on for more detailed help.
[dan@D11014490 ~]$ man -k compiler B (3pm) - The Perl Compiler B::Bytecode (3pm) - Perl compiler's bytecode backend B::C (3pm) - Perl compiler's C backend B::CC (3pm) - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend B::Deparse (3pm) - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code O (3pm) - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends compile_et (1) - error table compiler cups-config (3) - get cups api, compiler, directory, and link information f4rpcgen [rpcgen] (1) - an RPC protocol compiler g77 (1) - GNU project Fortran 77 compiler gcc (1) - GNU project C and C++ compiler gcj (1) - Ahead-of-time compiler for the Java language idlj (1) - The IDL-to-Java Compiler (RMI-IIOP version) less (3pm) - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler mk_cmds (1) - error table compiler perlcompile (1) - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator tic (1m) - the terminfo entry-description compiler widl (1) - Wine Interface Definition Language Compiler wrc (1) - Wine Resource Compiler wrc [wmc] (1) - Wine Message Compiler xsubpp (1) - compiler to convert Perl XS code into C code zic (8) - time zone compiler [dan@D11014490 ~]$ |