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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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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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 ...
