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Getting man path through Vim
So, I've set up Vim as my default man viewer. I also have NERDTree starting up automatically - but I could really do without NERDTree showing the location the man pages every time I check man.
I've ...
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Manual page syntax, what's the command(x) mean? [closed]
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What are the numbers in parentheses in the names of unix tools?
Reading the BSD General Commands Manual on Darwin. I keep noticing things in parenthesis after the ...
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What do the parentheses and number after a Linux command or C function mean?
I keep seeing parentheses and a number after a command or function, example: man(8), ftok(2), mount(8), etc.
What do these mean?
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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On my Linux there are some outdated translated mans installed.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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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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What do the underlined words in Unix man pages do?
This may be a really dumb question, but I think that I remember hearing that they link to other pages and that there is away to follow the link.
Maybe it is just for emphasis
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What does the 1 in ls(1) refer to? [closed]
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What do the parentheses and number after a Linux command or C function mean?
I see that many utilities have a number in brackets after their name, for example ls(1) or ...
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Get man page for different implementation of same command?
On SunOS man grep gives me the man page for the SunOS grep but grep --version says it's grep (GNU grep) 2.5. How do I get the man page for GNU grep?
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How to access sub-pages of a man page
If I type
man perl
on the command line, I get the man page for perl, which lists all of the sections into which the perl man pages have been split. How do I access one of these sections? For ...
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Man broke, possibly on installing git, how do I fix?
I am running Mac snow leopard 10.6.3 and I used a mac installer program for git that was designed originally for leopard. I think since then my man pages have been broken and attempting to look up any ...
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My man page is empty
When I try to see man for socket I get an empty page.
What's going on?
I get the following text in man
Manual page socket(3) line ?/? (END)
It seems man can not identify line (maybe).
How can I ...
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Problem with single quotes in man pages
When I ssh into my Debian Lenny server and open a man page, single quotes appear to be messed up. Example from the man page of apt-get:
If no package matches the given
expression and the ...
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What part of man pages apply to the bash shell?
I am currently using the bash shell but am a bit confused about man entries. For example the man entry for source (man source):
DESCRIPTION
sh
The exec command specified by the arguments is ...
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Bash Man Page: kill <pid> vs kill -9 <pid>
My man page does not document the difference between
kill <pid>
and
kill -9 <pid>
Since these do different things why is the -9 not documented in the kill manpage? I thought maybe ...
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What are the numbers in some unix manuals refering to? [closed]
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What are the numbers in parentheses in the names of unix tools?
Hello,
what these numbers I see in manual pages for linux commands?
See this gittutorial(7)[tutorial] to ...
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What are the numbers in parentheses in the names of unix tools? [closed]
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what does crypt(3) and whatnot mean
I'm talking about, e.g. in the git Manual pages, on the git(1) page,
See gittutorial(7) to get started,
or
git-add(1)
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How to “See portage(5) for more info” ? The `man` command on Linux [closed]
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what does crypt(3) and whatnot mean
See portage(5) for more information.
What does the (5) mean? How to see portage(5)?
BTW: Where should I look forward for such ...
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How can I make the man command not use a pager?
How can I force the man command to not use a pager, and instead output the whole manpage at once and keep all highlighting?
If I use man -P cat or man | cat, I lose highlighting.
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what does crypt(3) and whatnot mean [closed]
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What do the parentheses and number after a Linux command or C function mean?
In Linux Manpages (http://linux.die.net/man/3/crypt) I often see sth like this: crypt(3), ...
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Is their way to get manpages on windows machine, apart online-manpages
Is their way to get manpages on windows machine, apart online-manpages.
- I have a suggestion, if someway i get all the manpages in a text format (still donot know how), put then in a dir and then get ...
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How do I make 'man ascii' work on Fedora 11
Upgrading from Fedora 9 with a full reinstall off the non-developers CD image,
then installing various packages. man ascii doesn't work -- what do I need
to install to get this to work?
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How to install man pages for C standard library functions in Ubuntu?
In my university, I can do such things as:
man strlen
man strcpy
man msgget
man msgctl
and a nice manual page appears. On my PC I get
$ man strcat
No manual entry for strcat
Any help on how ...
