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help

help --all [pattern ...] Command
Display helpful information about builtin commands. If you do not specify pattern, this command shows short descriptions of most of available commands. If you specify the option --all to this command, short descriptions of rarely used commands (such as testload) are displayed as well.

If you specify any patterns, it displays longer information about each of the commands which match those patterns.