$ ~/.man.sh backup Backup From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses of "Backup", see Backup (disambiguation). In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup (often used like an adjective in compound nouns).^[1]
RTFMFTW.
Some commands have more information on 'info' than in the man pages
Sometimes you don't have man pages only '-h' or '--help'.
Simple edit to work for OSX. Now just add this to your ~/.profile and `source ~/.profile`
Same as the other rtfm's, but using the more correct xdg-open instead of $BROWSER. I can't find a way to open info only if the term exists, so it stays out of my version.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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