How to get help for a bash command

Michael Hirmke mh@mike.franken.de
Thu Jul 9 19:48:00 GMT 1998


Hi CRETEL,

>Hi all,
>
>Does someone know how to get help for a bash command?
>
>For example:
>
>    man find <Enter>

   - package availability
     - on ftp.franken.de
     - in /pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
     - as man-1.4j-win32-bin.tar.gz
     - or man-1.4j-win32-bin.zip

>
>or
>
>    help du <Enter>
>
>Also, I want to know what is the "set -x" command in a shell script?

              -x      After expanding each simple  command,  dis-
                      play the expanded value of PS4, followed by
                      the command and its expanded arguments.

>
>Thanks,
>D. Cretel

Bye.
Michael.
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