To search in a manual page, follow these steps:
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Open the manual page using the
mancommand. For example:man <command> -
Once the manual page is open, press
/(forward slash). -
Type your search term and press
Enter. -
To find the next occurrence of the search term, press
n. To go back to the previous occurrence, pressN. -
To search backward through the document, you can use
?instead of/, followed by your search term. -
Press
qto exit the manual page when you're done.
