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Where is there a manual page for Command Line Editing shortcuts?
There are times when I would like to respond to an already existing post, here specifically, because I want to figure out the source that these people are using for the answers. The answers in that ...
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MSYS2 man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/man_db.conf
I'm on Windows 10 but using bash and MSYS2 (mingw64). I just installed man using MSYS2. The problem is when typing a command like man echo (can be any command; it doesn't have to be echo), I get this ...
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Running `whatis cd` always returns "nothing appropriate" on Ubuntu 18.04
I was just playing around with the whatis command. For some reason, whenever I run whatis cd, I get cd: nothing appropriate. What does this mean? Why is this? It seems there is no man entry for cd ...
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Apropos on Arch returns "Nothing Appropriate," no makewhatis command
I've been having a problem with apropos on both my Arch linux install and my ArchBang install.
When I run the apropos or the whatis command, it returns "nothing appropriate" for anything I enter, ...
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Documentation on "BSD General Commands"
I cringe to ask this question, but for many commands on OS-X and probably other POSIX systems, it's difficult for me to find needed documentation on the built-in commands.
For example, if I want to ...
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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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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)
Unicode:...
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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 the ...
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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 in ...
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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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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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