Questions tagged [man]
'man' is a command for accessing documentation on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like systems.
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Search if program is installed for a particular purpose (Linux)
So, I am using Ubuntu 12.04.4 and I wonder if there is a program for opening PDF-files installed. I find that evince is installed in the system (by googling), and I stop to think if this can be done ...
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How to list installed man pages and search in many mans?
I am frustrated that to use man I need to know the exact name of the topic, and usually I need to search on Internet before I can open the man page. How to list installed man pages? How to search for ...
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web-based interactive MAN pages [closed]
So, there was this website where you type a unix command and it would break the command into its arguments explaining what does what. I suppose it was based on MAN, but I'm not sure.
I lost the ...
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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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Search which man sections contain a given entry
On Linux (or any other OS that uses the man tool), there are typically several sections of the manual. Often, a given entry (such as echo or printf) exists in multiple sections, but not all of them. ...
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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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what are the types of error messages that dd outputs? [duplicate]
What are the error messages that dd outputs? I tried to look at manual, but it does not say anything about it. Or I do not know how to look at manuals (man).
Edit: OK. I'll make it simple: what error ...
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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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How do you change the background color of man pages?
Specifically, on OSX, in zsh.
I'd like it when say...
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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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\[\033[0;33m\] color code is showing up as plain text in man pages
I'm seeing the string \[\033[0;33m\] show up at the begging of several lines in my man pages.
\[\033[0;33m\] is a shell color coding string that corresponds to yellow. So, for some reason instead of ...
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How can I restore the man page for ls (/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz)?
I was messing around with the man page files whereupon I accidentally deleted ls.1.gz, which describes the man page for ls.
Is there somewhere where I can download a copy of this file which I can ...
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non-root man pages with Linux-Ubuntu
I'm working on a Linux-Ubuntu server as non-root user. I created a small application and because I'm not a privileged user I'm going to install it under $HOME/bin directory (this directory is in the $...
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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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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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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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