[GuB-42]

What is a command and what is shell syntax is not always obvious, especially to a beginner, which I assume most people asking this question are.

Take the command "ls -l ~/.. ; fg" for instance. What is interpreted by the shell and what are commands? If you have some experience in bash, you probably know, and therefore you know which part to look in which man page, but you probably also know "2>&1".

Spoiler: "-l" is part of the command, so look in the "ls" manpage. "~", is expanded by the shell, ";" is shell syntax and "fg" is a builtin, all three are in the "bash" manpage. ".." is part of the filesystem.