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help — Display information about Bash builtin commands. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bas

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Problem

How to use the help command: Display information about Bash builtin commands. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-help>.

Solution

help — Display information about Bash builtin commands. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-help>.

Display the full list of builtin commands:
help


Print instructions on how to use the while loop construct:
help while


Print instructions on how to use the for loop construct:
help for


Print instructions on how to use [[ ]] for conditional commands:
help [[


Print instruction on how to use (( )) to evaluate arithmetic expressions:
help \(


Print instructions on how to use the cd command:
help cd

Code Snippets

Display the full list of builtin commands

help

Print instructions on how to use the `while` loop construct

help while

Print instructions on how to use the `for` loop construct

help for

Print instructions on how to use `[[ ]]` for conditional commands

help [[

Print instruction on how to use `(( ))` to evaluate arithmetic expressions

help \(

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tldr-pages: common/help

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