Manual:External utilities:oct-help
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Oct-help is a utility to helps you to write input files. It has been available since version 3.0. Oct-help has two modes:
search
$ oct-help search string
In this mode oct-help will print all variable names that contain string in their name.
show
$ oct-help show variable
In this mode oct-help will print the documentation for the indicated variable.