Here's a handy shell script to show only the options from a command's man page: showoptions() { man -s 1 "$*" |col -bx |awk '/^[ ]*-/,/^$/' |less }

Here's a handy shell script to show only the options from a command's man page: showoptions() { man -s 1 "$*" |col -bx |awk '/^[ ]*-/,/^$/' |less } (Won't work for every man page, but most of them where options start with a dash.) Enjoy!