Using the Unix Manual

Read the man page, man.


The hard-core approach: man man (read the man page for the man command.)
Search for man pages with: man -k keyword
searching for man pages

Unix man pages are often very terse, but usually very complete:

GREP(1)                                                   GREP(1)

NAME
       grep, egrep, fgrep - print lines matching a pattern

SYNOPSIS
       grep [options] PATTERN [FILE...]
       grep [options] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION
       Grep  searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if
       no files are named, or the file name - is given) for lines
       containing a match to the given PATTERN.  By default, grep
       prints the matching lines.

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