'man' is a command for accessing documentation on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like systems.
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How can I restore the man page for ls (/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz)?
I was messing around with the man page files whereupon I accidentally deleted ls.1.gz, which describes the man page for ls.
Is there somewhere where I can download a copy of this file which I can ...
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non-root man pages with Linux-Ubuntu
I'm working on a Linux-Ubuntu server as non-root user. I created a small application and because I'm not a privileged user I'm going to install it under $HOME/bin directory (this directory is in the ...
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Debian - bash is default shell, but “man sh” gives dash
On Debian stable. Running ps -p $$ shows bash is my current shell, ls -l $(which sh) shows sh is a symlink to bash. So why, when I run man sh, do I get the man page for dash? Is this just a bug in ...
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cannot find man pages in osx (manpath issue)
I have OSX 10.8.3 and my man pages are not showing up. I have had this problem when I was on 10.6, but not I want to fix it.
The reason why I cannot find man pages is because it is set to ...
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How do I find info about “sticky bits” from within Linux without having to use Google?
When I type:
$ man -k sticky
I get:
sticky: nothing appropriate
Surely there is information within the Linux OS somewhere (without having to go to Google) about sticky bits - what they are, how ...
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man page command: man 3 vs. man
I'm wondering what's the difference between "man 3 command" vs "man command"?
I read in wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page) that man 3 is used in Linux in section 3 of the man pages. And ...
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Different behaviour of man and apropos
I have a hierarchy of man pages that looks like
man_root
man1SO
man1SOUbuntu
driver.1SOUbuntu
man1SOWindows
driver.1SOWindows
So, If I look driver like this man -s 1SO I ...
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Pointing man pages to different location
In my environment, I am installing a different vendor SSH server other than openSSH tended to meet our environment needs. When I issue a man ssh command, for example, I want it to point to the new ...
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Fedora 17 LXDE missing man 2 and man 3 C functions
everyone.
I am using Fedora 17, and I need to refer to some C functions, but man 2 malloc or man 3 malloc ( malloc for example ) are not working. Also man (function) is not working too. Any clues? I ...
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Some man pages not found
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I had Fedora a couple of years back and I saw the man pages for the following there:
unistd.h,
sys/types.h,
standard typedefs (suffixed by "_t") etc.
I tried this:
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Installed Git via homebrew on OSX , man file problems, other potential problems?
I installed Git via homebrew, on OSX 10.8, with an already existing version of Git. The new version wouldn't show up, so I renamed the old git files (git, gitk etc...)in /usr/bin , to *-old. Now the ...
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Sometimes you are feeling down, you want to 'man up' — how can I add this manual entry in unix?
Cris-Mac-Book-2:src cris$ man up
No manual entry for up
How can I remedy this situation?
I want to add an 'invented' manual entry for a non-existant command up so I can type man up when required. ...
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MANPATH_MAP's being recognized but not used?
Short version
When you run man -dsome_command and the MANPATH environment variable is set, it outputs lines reading:
found manpath map /something/bin --> /something/share/man
But does not find ...
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How do I execute a Linux command whilst using the less command or within the man pages?
I generally pipe the command ls with less and would like to execute a command while it is paging e.g. I come across a file that I would like to delete so I would like to execute the command rm ...
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Why does “ulimit -t 5” have no effect on “less” or “man”, but work on “yes”?
If I run
$ ulimit -t 5
$ yes
then yes gets killed after 5 seconds, but man and less/more don't.
Why are those two immune to ulimit?
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what is (3pm), when I run apropos Unicode in see entries like this Unicode::CharName (3pm)
apropos unicode
Pango::ScriptIter (3pm) - used to break a string of Unicode into runs by text
Unicode::CharName (3pm) - Look up Unicode character names
Unicode::Map (3pm) - (unknown subject)
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Cant find the term firewire in a man page - ubuntu
I went into a man page by typing man man and then typing /firewire but I keep getting a message that says 'pattern not found'. I have tried every possible solution
If the way I'm doing things is ...
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linux man command in different languages
I want view man pages in Russian. Is it possible to do this? If yes, what do I need to do? Can I install it just using apt-get? I tried to google, but didn't find an answer.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1.
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Open man-page with less [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to let man utility to use less to display manual rather than more?
How can i open up the Man-page for a command with the less-editor?
Alternatively, how can i find ...
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local man page
I'm reading a book on administration and I'm wandering whether my answers are correct related to the man command. I'm running Ubuntu.
Qstn1: How would you read sync’s local man page that was kept ...
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bash: colorized man page
Where do I have to take a look at in the system to colorize the man pages?
The man pages are viewed with less, so I tried adding the following lines to my .bashrc to change the colors: (Which works ...
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How can I view all “man” entries in Unix?
I was trying to learn more about grep (as my coworkers suggested) since I rarely used it and needed to refresh my Unix knowledge. However, when I typed man grep, the following message was displayed:
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How to jump to a particular flag in a Unix manpage?
When reading a Unix manpage in the terminal, how can I jump easily to the description of a particular flag?
For instance, I need to know the meaning of the -o flag for mount. I run man mount and want ...
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What does the -R flag do for chflags?
I'm not clear on exactly what the -R flag does for chflags. I was wondering if someone might be able to help me.
The man page says this:
Recurse: Change the file flags of file hierarchies rooted ...
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Difference between 'apropos *' and 'apropos .'
OpenSUSE 12.01, KDE, kernel 3.1.9-1.4-default
Trying to get all man pages. Basically the answer is apropos . or man -k .. Why does apropos \* only returns about 300 man pages while apropos . returns ...
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How do I cycle through from top to bottom when passing a pattern in command: in Linux?
I came across the post at Linux 'man' command: How do I search for a word/phrase and cycle through? which explains the ability to cycle to the next pattern but how do I get it cycle through ...
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How can I use man to lookup cocoa functions like FSEventsCopyUUIDForDevice in os x?
I can use man to look up tranditional posix APIs,
but NOT when I try to look up os x APIs like FSEventsCopyUUIDForDevice etc.
What am I missing?
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man pages don't line wrap correctly
Sometimes running man outputs badly line-wrapped text. If I run man, quit, then resize the terminal window and run man again, it formats it according to the new window width. But if I run man, resize ...
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man gcc not working
I was trying to read about how to make gcc compile C code to plain assembly for a bootloader, but when I tried to read the man pages there were none!
$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
See 'man 7 ...
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Colored man pages but git --help is not in ZSH
I have colored man pages according to:
alias man="TERMINFO=~/.terminfo/ LESS=C TERM=mostlike PAGER=less man"
so
man less
looks like
but git blame --help is uncolored
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man page show nothing but END, but it works after su
try the 'man man' command, show nothing but END symbol
change to su account
try the 'man man' command again, it works as usual
I have no idea about this problem, any helps? thank you very much.
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Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man
I'm using mintty and cygwin. How to can I enable the mouse wheel inside less and man?
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How to display man page with a specific path?
There are some binaries and corresponding man pages on the IBM AIX system I am working with (/some/path/bin and /some/path/man), but neither bin nor man directory are in my $PATH or $MANPATH . I would ...
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man: command not found in zsh (Mac OS 10.58)
I changed to zsh from the default (by changing the "Shells open with" preference in Terminal to "command (complete path)" set to /bin/zsh
While most things seem to work, I tried to see the man page ...
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Man command not installed (fedora)
For some strange reason, when I got my installation of fedora, man command was missing. I have already install development tools packages - but still no luck.
I checked all the usual suspects: PATH, ...
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How do you switch between Linux manual pages?
I'm new with Linux and have noticed that there are numbers beside certain commands I look up.
For example I want to look up accept() in the aspect of network programming, but man accept shows this ...
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Man and LANG issue
My LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 so if man page was translated I get garbage
in output.
Problem lies out of 'cp1251' because /usr/share/man/ru store
man pages in different encoding:
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Man command freezes computer for ~30 seconds
Every time I run man to access a manual page my entire computer freezes for about 30 seconds.
My MANPATH is ...
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Where are man pages stored in Ubuntu?
I hope my question isn't too trivial, but I've never actually needed to know this before.
In which directory can I find the files of the man pages, i.e. the read-only text file opened when you type ...
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OS X Lion man pages missing flags
I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 on Saturday, and have been restoring some of my applications that I build from source, when I noticed that the man pages are failing to render the command line flags ...
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How to display every man page available on a unix system
How can I display every man page available on a unix system? I want to list them all in an easy manner without manually digging up all the search paths, etc.
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Linux 'man' command: How do I search for a word/phrase and cycle through?
When looking for a certain word or phrase in the man page of linux command, one can type '/' followed by the word/phrase to search for it.
What I'd like to be able to do is to search for the next ...
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`man bash | grep ulimit` returns nothing
I know that the builtin command ulimit is listed in the bash man page.
Grepping for it doesn't return anything though. Why?
grep and man both work fine, man bash | grep strings returns several ...
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Debian - I have removed some of my man page files
I deleted the /usr/share/man/man1 directory and wondered if there was a quick way to recover the manuals for the installed packages.
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man pages for git Bash on windows 7
I am using Git bash on Windows 7. It provides me with a way to use most of the commands that I used to use on the bash shell on my Ubuntu machine. But the man and the info commands do not work. Is ...
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How does man work in linux?
When we man std::vector,how/where does it search for corresponding documents internally?
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How can I install C++ man pages manually?
Sadly, yum install libstdc++-docs doesn't work for me:
No package libstdc++-docs available.
So, I can only install it myself.
I've found the C++ man pages here, how can I install it?
I guess ...
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Linux: disable man from showing mans in non-English languages
On my Linux there are some outdated translated mans installed. I want to prohibit man utility from showing them.
I want to do this permanently, while saving a current locale.
What environment ...
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Searching for a specific option in a man page
I often find myself man'ing a command just to learn about one specific option. Most of the time I can search to the option just fine, unless it's something like ffmpeg or gcc where I have to step ...
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how to make man page not disappear on exit
...probably a silly question but I could not beat google into telling me the answer so posting here:
I got 2 machines - Slackware 13 and Fedora 11.
On the slack machine, when I use man I can scroll ...
