HELP/MAN User Commands
NAME
help - Help System
ALIASES
HELP, MAN
SYNOPSIS
help [OPTIONS] [TOPIC]
DESCRIPTION
The Help System is designed to make information more readily available
to users during Command Line Console sessions. The HELP command issued
without parameters lists the available commands. Help information for any
of the available commands can then be displayed using the name as the
TOPIC.
Additional HELP Topics are available for Registry keys and reference
information.
-S
When a topic is not found HELP displays search results displaying
topics which contain the TOPIC keyword. By default only a limited
number of matches are displayed. This option skips the search for
a specific TOPIC, performs the content search, and shows ALL results.
Results are listing in order of decreasing relevance.
-I [CATEGORY]
Generates an index including all of the available HELP topics. If a
valid CATEGORY is specified the list is limited to a related subset.
-C
List all available categories. Most HELP topics belong to at least one
category.
-P
This option pages the Help response 24 lines at a time. The user
can page through the information using any keyboard keystroke. This
eliminates the need to scroll back for reading. A Ctrl-C disables
the paging for the balance of the text. (See note below)
-L
Displays the brief legacy Help text as is available for commands. The
option '-?' may be used with most commands to access their short help
text.
NOTES
The Topic may contain '*' and '?' wildcards but only matches legacy Help
text in that case.
Help output can be lengthy as there can be a lot of information available for
display. In addition to the -P option that pages the output for you, you may
also 'pipe' the output using the pipe character '|' from the command to
MORE .
This opens the screen editor with the output in read-only mode. Here you can
scroll, page and even search the results. Keep in mind that Ctrl-Q exits this
tool.
SEE ALSO
HELP Topics:
SUPPORT,
MANUAL,
MORE
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