The easiest way to get help regarding a tool is use either the man
or --help
to solve the problems. It is hard to memorize all the tools so the use cases are:
workstation@htb[\htb]$ man <tool>
workstation@htb[\htb]$ <tool> --help
workstation@htb[\htb]$ <tool> -h
The results from --help
and -h
. Another tool that utilizes the help page and the manual pages are apropos
. This tool searches the descriptions for instance of a given keyword.
workstation@htb[\htb]$ apropos <keyword>
workstation@htb[\htb]$ apropos sudo
- Another useful shell response is [https://explainshell.com]