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Manuals

To explore the manuals use the command man or info followed by the name of the function or program

man
What manual page do you want?
For example, try 'man man'.

Search for information about the manual interface within man

man man

Description of the system hierarchy

man hier

Showing only the first four lines of "info" interface

info | head -4
File: dir, Node: Top, This is the top of the INFO tree.
This is the Info main menu (aka directory node).
A few useful Info commands:

Search for info page about Bash shell features

info bash

The manuals can also be accessed from emacs using "M-x" (using the "meta" key or CTRL + x)

M-x info
M-x man
M-x woman