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What is the recommended user writable manpath?
I'm writing an interactive shell utility (it's a bash script), and I would like to provide a man page for it. It's a script that I expect the user to download and put in their PATH, not something ...
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Syntax or convention used to describe Linux commands
If you apply git clone --help in the command line, your result will include something like the following:
git clone [--template=<template_directory>]
[-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] ...
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How to easily find what variation of <common command> is used in my distribution?
When learning to use basic C functions and other commands (sed, awk and a lot more) in terminal, shell, etc. I realize that their behavior is slightly different depending on the OS. MacOS, Linux and ...
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Where to find purpose of each system default Groups and Users in Linux
when I cat /etc/group and cat /etc/passwd I get a list in which I find many I don't know. I know only group sudo group. But there is are many which I don't knows such as sys, adm .... I like to learn ...
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Search engine for man pages
I needed a function to find a character in a string in c. I used a web browser to search for ”find char in string c” which gave me the information that the function I was looking for is called ”strchr”...
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How can I get rid of permission denied error when executing man to read the manpages?
I'm getting a permission denied error when trying to access the manpages of all executables. For example, here's the following command:
% man cat
Here's one of the errors returned:
zsh: permission ...
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Is there a more interactive man and info pages viewer?
If I use man to view man pages, they are not interactive at all, I can merely change the visuals through a pager.
With info I can view man and info pages with interactive links, including the links in ...
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man -k . is not working in gnu/linux [duplicate]
I am using manjaro and when i try command man -k . or apropos . or man -k . -s 2 to see all man pages it's giving me error like
.: nothing appropriate.
is it man different because i gnu coreutils ? ...
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Why does apropos and man -k omit or miss valid results?
For example, if I enter the following command:
$ man -k compare
The diff command is missing from the results, however the test command is not. I get the same results using apropos as expected.
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What is the useage of the "compiled magic file" named on the "file" command man documentation?
Reading the documentation about the Linux file command. I have found this in the magic test description:
Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed offset into the file
can usually be ...
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Render troff file on terminal like the man outputs on terminal
I was trying to render the troff file https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/master/common/man/C/backintime-config.1 in terminal.
How can I make the output (using cat or some other utility) look ...
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Pipe a Man Page to Kate Without Writing to Hard Drive
What command will pipe a man page to Kate text-editor without writing anything to the hard drive?
I've seen examples that create a temp file (on the file system) and then open that tmp file with a ...
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How to find name of the command locally [duplicate]
I use Linux not Windows for several years at home and consider using command line quicker way to do things. However sometimes I could not easily recall name of needed command, for example instead of ...
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I want to execute man command on another command that I get as input from a file
I have a file that contains multiple commands, ls,echo,ps etc. I want to find with a terminal command which command occurs most (have the most appearances on the file) and then execute man to it. For ...
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See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available - WSL core Ubuntu 18.04 installation
I am using WSL on win10 with lxrunoffline distribution managing utility. My distro is Ubuntu 18.04 core install that can be found here - download link.
Typing man man, man pwd or man <anything> ...
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