1 perf-help(1) 2 ============ 3 4 NAME 5 ---- 6 perf-help - display help information about perf 7 8 SYNOPSIS 9 -------- 10 'perf help' [-a|--all] [COMMAND] 11 12 DESCRIPTION 13 ----------- 14 15 With no options and no COMMAND given, the synopsis of the 'perf' 16 command and a list of the most commonly used perf commands are printed 17 on the standard output. 18 19 If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, then all available commands are 20 printed on the standard output. 21 22 If a perf command is named, a manual page for that command is brought 23 up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this 24 can be overridden by other options or configuration variables. 25 26 Note that `perf --help ...` is identical to `perf help ...` because the 27 former is internally converted into the latter. 28 29 OPTIONS 30 ------- 31 -a:: 32 --all:: 33 Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This 34 option supersedes any other option. 35 36 PERF 37 ---- 38 Part of the linkperf:perf[1] suite 39
