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Manuals

macOS makes use of several hundred UNIX commands. These commands are accessible in Terminal and are very well documented in the Manuals. You can use the "man" command in the Manuals pane of the Utilities toolbar item to format and display these manual pages.

To display a man page:

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Click the Utilities toolbar item, and select the Manuals tab.

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Double click the name of the command in the list at left, or enter the name of the command in the search field and click the Show button.

To convert the man page to PDF and open it automatically with Preview, click the Create PDF button.

The Rebuild button updates the whatis.db database, located in the /usr/share/man/ folder used by the apropos, man, and whatis commands.