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Why is manpath acting abnormally?
I am currently attempting to add a custom man page to /usr/local/man for the binary in /usr/local/bin. However, the expected behavior differs from my interpretation of the manual. As well as the ...
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How do I see aptitude "Search patterns"? (~n, ~i, ~U,..)
While opening man aptitude I see this in many places:
(see the section “Search Patterns” in the aptitude reference manual).
How do I open this reference manual? I want to find patterns like ~i (...
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Using Debian linux command 'whereis' to show files without man pages
From the 'whereis' man pages on my Debian/GNU Linux I see:
-u Search for unusual entries. A file is said to be unusual
if it does not have one entry of each requested type....
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Debian - bash is default shell, but "man sh" gives dash
On Debian squeeze. Running ps -p $$ shows bash is my current shell, ls -l $(which sh) shows sh is a symlink to bash. So why, when I run man sh, do I get the man page for dash? Is this just a bug in ...
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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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