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manpath abnormal: `man -k .` show duplication and partially missing in macOS
I got abnormal manpath in man -k . or apropos .:
duplicate shows:
$ man -k . | grep -w apropos
man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) - display online manual documentation pages
man(1), apropos(1), whatis(1) -...
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Creating a new section of man pages
I have obtained man pages for the GNU Fortran intrinsic procedures (link). After cloning the repo, the man pages themselves are in a directory ~/Documents/fortran-man-pages/man3f, and each one is a ...
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man <whatever> opens vim with hidden characters displayed
I'm on Mac/Sierra using MacVim. When I run man MacVim (I have alias vim="mvim" set in my .bashrc) I get the man page with hidden whitepace characters displayed.
This only happens for man pages (I ...
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What is the difference between $man and man on a mac
On a terminal, the commands $man and man seem to do slightly different things.
For example $man open vs. man open. It looks like $man is the same as man except it prints the output directly instead ...
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Man pages are outdated
Background:
I recently learned about the mv -t flag option in bash, but when I checked the man pages on my computer, there was no mention of it. The man pages were dated 9 July 2002. I ssh-ed into ...
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show man pages in terminal without a pager
man defaults to using a pager. For short pages, I want to just echo them to the terminal without paging. I'm on OS X. Things I've tried:
man -t man #produces PostScript output
man ...
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What does man [-acdfFhkKtwW] mean?
I am fairly new to using the OSX terminal, so before I move forward, I want to get good at finding information out for myself. So, I was reading about the manpages about manpages, and I saw that I ...
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How do you change the background color of man pages?
Specifically, on OSX, in zsh.
I'd like it when say...
man man
The background color is a darkish-yellow and the foreground is a charcoal gray/black. In this way I'm sure I'm looking at a man page ...
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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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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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Installed Git via homebrew on OSX , man file problems, other potential problems?
I installed Git via homebrew, on OSX 10.8, with an already existing version of Git. The new version wouldn't show up, so I renamed the old git files (git, gitk etc...)in /usr/bin , to *-old. Now 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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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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