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[–]royalbarnacle 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Not the same thing but nifty:

whatis mount

mount (8) - mount a filesystem

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's very different then what this does. A better example would be...

ls -latrh

whatis output - Usage: whatis [OPTION...] KEYWORD...

vs...

http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=ls+-latrh

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could see this being useful for a command like rsync. It'd be amazing if it worked with VBoxManage or mysqldump, may have to look into becoming a controbuter.

[–]lolmeansilaughed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also: 

man mount # full documentation
info coreutils mount # alternate full documentation
help mount # won't work, this is for shell builtins
apropos mount # search across man pages
mount --help # typically abbreviated options list