Questions tagged [man]
'man' is a command for accessing documentation on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like systems.
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Man command freezes computer for ~30 seconds
Every time I run man to access a manual page my entire computer freezes for about 30 seconds.
My MANPATH is "/Library/init/zsh/man:/opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/...
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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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man: command not found in zsh (Mac OS 10.58)
I changed to zsh from the default (by changing the "Shells open with" preference in Terminal to "command (complete path)" set to /bin/zsh
While most things seem to work, I tried to see the man page ...
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Man and LANG issue
My LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 so if man page was translated I get garbage
in output.
Problem lies out of 'cp1251' because /usr/share/man/ru store
man pages in different encoding:
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/mc....
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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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Is there a download option for the documentation and tutorials at https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0? (Windows user)
I want the documentation and probably the tutorials saved locally on my computer, as usually I only have a 64 kbit/s internet connection. I'm working on Windows 10.
At perlfaq1.html#AUTHOR-AND-...
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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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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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How to install manpages on FreeNAS 9.3?
I'm having enourmous trouble installing manpages on FreeNAS 9.3 (based on FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15). I tried:
installing pc-sysinstall from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.2-...
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man --html - Not showing tables?
I recently discovered man --html, and am quite giddy with joy at being able to navigate the docs locally in a browser at a whim.
However, it seems like certain objects, such as tables, are not ...
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How can I use man to lookup cocoa functions like FSEventsCopyUUIDForDevice in os x?
I can use man to look up tranditional posix APIs,
but NOT when I try to look up os x APIs like FSEventsCopyUUIDForDevice etc.
What am I missing?
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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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Linux: test expression
How to use test to test a expression like this:
if { [ $month -eq 03 ] || [ $month -eq 10 ]; } && [ $weekday = "So" ] && [ $day -gt 24 ]
I need to test the whole if ...
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Is there an archive of man pages sorted by software version?
Is there a published archive of every man page for every (or at least the most common) linux utilities across all the different versions of said utilities?
My use case is I'm trying to figure out when ...
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rsync - list all options alphabetically?
I'm just starting to get acquainted with rsync... it has hundreds of options, both short (single-dash) and long (double-dash).
The man pages don't list these alphabetically, either under "OPTIONS ...
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