Questions tagged [manpages]
The Linux command "man" displays manpages
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How can I make my terminal experience more visually pleasing on Fedora 37 for reading manpages?
I currently use the basic GNOME Terminal on Fedora and I've had to do a lot of reading of manpages in it lately and would prefer a more visually appealing experience beyond simply changing background/...
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How do I convert manpages/info files to EPUB?
I like to read the manual pages on my e-reader. What is the best way to convert the manpages/info files into EPUBs?
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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 to ...
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What are these '3cxx' man pages, and how can I remove/exclude them from man invocations?
This all started because I wanted man pages on C++ types/functions. I found a repository called Cppman that was designed to scrape these pages from either cplusplus or cppreference. At this point man ...
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Enabling mouse scrolling in OS X terminal man pages
I have been trying to find a way for the OS X Terminal to accept the mouse input to scroll in the man pages.
I have installed SIMBL and MouseTerm but this does not enable scrolling in the man pages. ...
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GNU tar's --null option
The GNU tar's manpage has this to say about the --null option:
-T reads null-terminated names, disable -C
I know that --null is useful in combination with find ... -print0, but what is it about ...
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Fix man pages after disk was full
during an apt-get dist-upgrade my /var partition had no free disk space left, which led to dropping man pages during the installation of the packages.
Now that I have fixed this problem, is there any ...
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pandoc - markdown to man page tables not formatted (on msys2)
I am trying to use pandoc (if someone has a better conversion program I am all ears, please not ruby-dependent) to convert markdown files into manpages. It works fine until I go to do a doc with a ...
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What's the difference between "uname -r" and "uname -v"?
I am using CentOS 6.2. In the man page of uname (i.e., man uname), it says:
-r, --kernel-release
print the kernel release
-v, --kernel-version
print the kernel version
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Is there a way to get manpages on a Windows machine, apart from online manpages?
Is there a way to get manpages on a Windows machine, apart from online man pages?
I have a suggestion: if in some way I can get all the manpages in a text format (still don't know how), put them in a ...
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Confusion about the `conntrack` extension of `iptables`
The iptables-extensions manpage has this to say about the conntrack extension (emphasis mine):
This module, when combined with connection tracking, allows access to the connection tracking state ...
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What is the most effective way to fix content in older linux manpages like traceroute?
Today I was reading through the manpage for traceroute when I came across this passage:
"There is a couple of additional options, intended for an advanced usage (another trace methods etc.):"
I ...
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What do the parentheses and number after a Unix command or C function mean?
I keep seeing parentheses and a number after a command in Unix or Linux or C function.
For example: man(8), ftok(2), mount(8), etc.
What do these mean? I see them in man too.
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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 "/usr/local/...
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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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man page only found after ran with root
When I try to run man page on my Red Hat as a normal user I get "No manual entry for zip"
If I change to root run: "man zip" and then I get the man page and afterwards I see the same man page as I did ...
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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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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 it ...
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Is there a way to integrate the unix “man pages” into OSX's Dictionary app?
I was thinking it would be cool to be able to look things up in the man pages the same way one looks up words with the "Dictionary" app. Is there a way to add the man pages that OSX supplies into the ...
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Why does $ find -delete not work sometimes?
I think what I'm talking about is this part of the manpage, which is just barely too indecipherable for me:
-delete
... It will not attempt to delete a filename with a ``/'' character in its
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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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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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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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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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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? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 symlink(...
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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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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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what does crypt(3) and whatnot mean [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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), bla(4), ...
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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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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 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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How to "See portage(5) for more info" ? The `man` command on Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 questions? ...
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What are the numbers in parentheses in the names of unix tools? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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)
Add file ...
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What are the numbers in some unix manuals refering to? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 get ...