man is a command for accessing documentation on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like systems. Manual pages are typically grouped into eight categories and provide information on commands, system calls, and other components of the operating system.
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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 .'. What I was wondering about is why does 'apropos *' only returns about 300 ...
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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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Balance in alsamixer man page
The alsamixer man page says this on balance:
The B or = key adjusts the balance of volumes on left and right
channels.
But as far as I can see, the B and = keys only set the left and right ...
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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 ...
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In Linux, how to get the man page for compiled programs?
I know that installing a package through APT (apt-get or aptitude for my computer) will automatically install the appropriate man pages and update the man database. When I want to build the same ...
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Linux Man command help
Are there any tricks/sites/methods to use the linux man command in a more convenient way ? I love commands in terminal but for some strange reason I preferred to type man in firefox then in the ...
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in VI and man command, how to exactly match a string?
in VI and man command, how to exactly match a string? I don't know how to exact match a string~
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How can I get file information in 'less' like with 'man'?
When I view a file in Linux with the 'less' command, I often only get a ":" prompt in the bottom left corner. There's no clue about how long the file will be, or at which location I am currently. When ...
