Man page
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Regular usage is just man followed by the name of the command you want to know about.
man ls
Really Useful: You can use -t to format the output of man as paginated postscript and pipe the results to ps2pdf to make a PDF file!
man -t ls | ps2pdf - > ls.pdf
manpdf
Creating pdfs of manpages is really useful! But it's hard to remember the command. So create a bash script that's in your path (for instance ~/bin/manpdf), with:
#!/bin/bash
man -t $1 | ps2pdf - > $1.pdf
And be sure to chmod +x it so that you can then use it anytime you want to generate a PDF for intensive consulation.
For example:
manpdf mplayer
to create mplayer.pdf