What you do when you are not sure of the command you are running especially in case of complex commands which uses a lot of options. We use man pages to get some help in such situation. Some of the other options may include commands like ‘help‘, ‘whereis‘ and ‘whatis‘. But all has their Pros and Cons.
While going through man pages for options and help, the description in man pages are too lengthy to understand specially in short span of time.
Linux Man Pages
Similarly, ‘help‘ command may not give you desired output.
Help Command
A ‘whereis‘ command hardly tells anything other than the location of Installed Binaries (May be Important at time).
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