Name

Help - digital manual

Open

Synopsis

$ Help
$ Help [section] page
$ Help search_query
$ Help file

Description

Help is Minerva's digital manual, the GUI counterpart to man. It lets you search for and read manual pages (or "man pages").

Examples

To open Help:

$ Help

To open documentation for the echo command:

$ Help echo

To open the documentation for the mkdir command:

$ Help 1 mkdir

Conversely, to open the documentation about the mkdir() syscall:

$ Help 2 mkdir

Files

Help looks for man pages under /usr/share/man. For example, this man page should be located at /usr/share/man/man1/Applications/Help.md.

See Also

• man(1) To read these same man pages from the terminal
• man(7) For an overview on how manpages are organized