At the risk of sounding very distasteful, you could always just ask one of the gippities to understand what a command does. Though this would be less painful, I

At the risk of sounding very distasteful, you could always just ask one of the gippities to understand what a command does. Though this would be less painful, I suppose you would lose out on having to go through the man pages and learning how to navigate those effectively. I myself don't really like looking into the man pages for answers. I just go in there for confirming the answers.