manpage Questions

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How do I transcode Python documentation strings to a GitHub readme.md file? Even though it seems like something everyone does, I cannot seem to get a decent solution and I am assuming it should be ...
Outhaul asked 26/3, 2016 at 16:3

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I want to see the man page of some c standard library functions in Mac OS X. When I typed in man setsockopt, it returns: No manual entry for setsockopt. Does that mean I haven't installed man pages...
Infare asked 22/8, 2013 at 12:46

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I saw the man page of test. where the below is mentioned. -e pathname True if pathname resolves to a file that exists. False if pathname cannot be resolved. -f pathname True if pathname resolve...
Impregnable asked 28/7, 2011 at 11:50

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I'm looking for the windows executable for the linux man (manual reader). I tried googling around, but got frustrated with the kind of results it came up with, owing to 'man' being such a common p...
Allanadale asked 3/6, 2009 at 12:24

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Say I have given man ls. Within this man page I found another function/keyword that I wanted to check up. Say I found the function name by doing /fun_name. Now I want to see the man page of this f...
Antimonyl asked 18/10, 2014 at 14:4

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After installing the man pages via dnf, I still can't find them inside /usr/share/man. docker run --rm -it fedora bash -c "dnf install -y man-pages && ls -lR /usr/share/man" Did ...
Heaves asked 5/10, 2020 at 9:11

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I use Guake terminal emulator a lot. It's the best thing since sliced bred IMO. But one thing has been bugging me, when I want to read man pages the default width of the output is the width of the...
Tedric asked 11/5, 2015 at 16:45

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For example, when I type man fg, or man history, the same manpage, BUILTIN(1) will be displayed. There is a list of commands, but not the specification of their usage. Where can I find them?
Wellrounded asked 10/4, 2014 at 15:7

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I redirected the output of man djpeg into a text file so that I can reference it as I learn to use it. My instruction was man djpeg > textfile.txt. However, the output looks something like this:...
Dragonfly asked 29/10, 2014 at 15:34

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I am developing a python CLI tool (using optparse in python2.6, but hope to switch soon to python2.7) and I am about to write the man page. I have some experience on generating dynamic man pages by...
Impersonalize asked 24/8, 2011 at 13:50

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Is there a way to convert all Linux man pages to either plain text, html or markdown? I need to do this for every man file I have installed on my system.
Poplar asked 17/11, 2012 at 19:16

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I can’t get man to work in an Alpine Linux Docker container. Pull Alpine Linux and start a container. docker pull alpine:latest docker run -t -i alpine /bin/ash Update repository indexes from a...
Triplicity asked 20/8, 2016 at 14:30

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I am using linux(mint mate), and installed maven by download & unzip & config the environment, I could use the mvn command. I want to have man mvn, not just mvn -help, any tip? @Update:...
Joinder asked 21/7, 2015 at 14:25

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In the man page of git, there is a line which says: See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see giteveryday(7) for a useful minimum set of commands. The Git User’s Manual[1] has a more in-depth in...
Haugh asked 30/10, 2018 at 13:20

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I am assuming it is inline or block but I wanted to verify it in the documentation and could not find it on MDN. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input I am using input wit...
Dib asked 24/8, 2021 at 4:7

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I use the following Dockerfile to build an image and start a container. But once I am in the container, I still can not find manpages. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? $ cat Docke...
Manila asked 11/1, 2019 at 19:29

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I am trying to install a man page for a bash script on Mac OS X 10.9.5. The procedure that I tried to follow is summarised here: man page tutorial. I also summarise the steps that I tried below: c...
Oraliaoralie asked 16/5, 2015 at 11:6

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I am looking for some good examples / tutorials on how to generate, package, and install man pages in projects using CMake.
Pilot asked 30/7, 2010 at 21:4

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I somehow lost the man pages for gcc and g++. I'm not sure where/what to look for. I'm pretty sure the man pages used to work some time ago. It also works on my Mac at work where I use roughly the ...
Tanatanach asked 15/5, 2014 at 17:8

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I want to be able to read man pages in Vim. For some reason, it seems that Vim isn't able to read the output of programs through piping. E.g (man ls) | vi doesn't seem to work, bonus points for som...
Spatterdash asked 24/5, 2013 at 17:8

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How do I set an environment variable in C++? They do not need to persist past program execution They only need to be visible in the current process Preference for platform independent but for my ...
Cockle asked 22/5, 2009 at 19:12

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How do I read a .man file that's not on my manpath? I know I had a command for this, but now I don't remember, and I can't find the right switch in the man pages for man.
Inductor asked 1/12, 2011 at 2:40

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The package's manual page is in section 1 but I want it in section 8. What kind of changes do I have to do in git? I tried renaming the package.1 file to package.8, but it did not help at least wh...
Pelagian asked 21/11, 2019 at 18:52

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For example: man(1), find(3), updatedb(2)? What do the numbers in parentheses (Brit. "brackets") mean?
Penhall asked 15/9, 2008 at 13:37

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From bpf man page: eBPF programs can be written in a restricted C that is compiled (using the clang compiler) into eBPF bytecode. Various features are omitted from this restricted C, such as l...
Chimney asked 28/8, 2019 at 8:44

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