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help - Get help about commands and topics

  1. help - Get help about commands and topics
    1. Synopsis
    2. Description

help - Get help about commands and topics

Synopsis

gsutil help [command or topic]

Description

Running: 

gsutil help

will provide a summary of all commands and additional topics on which help is available.

Running: 

gsutil help command or topic

will provide help about the specified command or topic.

Running: 

gsutil help command sub-command

will provide help about the specified sub-command. For example, running: 

`gsutil help acl </storage/docs/gsutil/commands/acl>`_ set

will provide help about the “set” subcommand of the “acl” command.

If you set the PAGER environment variable to the path to a pager program (such as /bin/less on Linux), long help sections will be piped through the specified pager.

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