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man - format and display the on-line manual pages ("on-line" meaning “on the computer”, as opposed to “on paper”, not “on the Internet”)

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I want to create a text file of a man page that includes pagination. This will allow later to send to a legacy line/matrix printer. This implies that the command header and footer will be repeated in ...
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I occasionally use Python and so I forget semantics of basic language constructs. Is there an apt package to install man page of basic Python documentation? My Linux Mint comes only with help of ...
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I'd like to have an additional "man" page for grep, containing examples that I would use (but don't always remember).
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Even though bash -n is a valid and widely used option, some manpages don't clearly document it in the bash options section, even though it is implemented. It's also not in the GNU Bash Reference ...
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On Debian Bookworm, the $COLUMNS bash variable is always a little smaller than the actual terminal width. This leaves a little space on the right side whenever I run a program that runs through less, ...
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I like the man command's status prompt to be customized. The default as picked from its own man page is like this, Manual page name(sec) line x But, having it show me the percentage of contents read ...
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Today I have read two answers about which regular expressions are supported by less: Where is less search pattern reference? Kusalananda mentioned re_format(7) and referenced its manpage as man 7 ...
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For a man page written in POD (perlpod) I had the effect that the SYNOPSIS was left-adjusted on the text terminal, but the PostScript output (read: troff) adjusted the text to both borders. So I tried ...
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I am writing a program manual in mdoc(7). One example of my programs has this synopsis: parsrc.sh [-lf<s>] [CSV_file] Taken from ShellShoccar-jpn/Parsrs/parsrc.sh For example if you run parsrc....
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I'm on Linux Mint 21 (Ubuntu based). Just noted man pages internal search (/) does not find a word if split between two lines (the word is whole in the source of the page, displayed with a hyphen and ...
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man-db's man --global-apropos/man -k is slow. man --global-apropos --where RestrictNamespaces takes around 30 seconds on a fairly beefy laptop with an NVMe. Compare to find $(manpath | tr : '\n') -...
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On my macOS system I have installed gcc-14 with Homebrew. On a shell that has access to the files, I can open a man page for the GCC compiler with man gcc-14. I would like to write a script that ...
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Something has been really bugging me in he manual for the pam module pwquality (see man pwquality.conf). I quote: minlen Minimum acceptable size for the new password (plus one if ...
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I installed Fedora 39 on WSL, but I ran into some issues when I tried using man. When I used the man command, I was getting no manual entry for ... I had to remove tsflags=nodocs from /etc/dnf/dnf....
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I am in the process of learning the usage of iscsiadm and somehow I noticed a strange behavior of grep. Attempting to run the following grep command man iscsiadm | grep "aia" results in ...
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