Questions tagged [manpage]
A manpage is a piece of documentation (not just a single page) that comes with most programs installed on Ubuntu.This is invoked with the name of a program to call up a help manual with various sections detailing the operation of the program.
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The man page for date is missing some options
I am testing with Ubuntu 25.10 and tried the date command. The man pages don't contain the explanation of %M and so on anymore. Is that the intention? In version 24.04 it is still there.
Kind regards,
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View a manpage located in the "/usr/share/<program>/man" subtree
Reading the manpage for the fish shell with man, I see a reference to a fuller fish-doc manpage.
However, man cannot locate it:
$ man fish-doc
No manual entry for fish-doc
This manpage indeed exists, ...
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man command fails for normal user in wezterm
The man command has become silent for normal users on Ubuntu 25.04. Every man command entered gives no output, for example.
$ man ls
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$ man -V
$
This problem could be a regression, the saem ...
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libmandb-2.10.2.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
When I try to open the man page of any program I get the following message:
$ man ls
man: error while loading shared libraries: libmandb-2.10.2.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
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Colored man pages stopped working in Ubuntu 24
I have the following lines in my .bashrc to support colors in man pages:
# Colored man pages
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[1;32m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;32m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: Forgot Package Name for Graphical Manpage Viewer
I remember having installed a graphical manpage viewer that asks me for the first letter of a manpage, the section of the manpage, and the specific manpage in question. I do not, however, remember the ...
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what is the purpose of -newer especially paired with find -newer
I looked it up in the man page of find, but I'm having trouble understanding the definition of -newer. An example would be
find . -newer ~/start-date
I have no idea what the expression -newer is.
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There are times when I need to read man pages from a Windows machine. Is this possible?
When away from my Linux system I sometimes want to read up on a Linux command. Today it is xrandr. The online web sources do not seem to have it. Any ideas?
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How do I use "batcat" to colorize the output of the "--help" and "-h" options of commands?
I would like to use batcat to colorize the output of the --help and -h options of commands, similar to the use of batcat colorization of the man pages.
I would like this to work on different shells, ...
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What means "can't resolve man7/groff_man.7"?
When I leave the explanation of the "man man" command on Ubuntu 24.04 ("q"), I see "man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7". This is not happening with other comands like &...
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man what iptables docs for --sport and --dport
It's hard to find the documentaion for --sport and --dport by using "iptables --help" or "man iptables".
iptables --help | grep port
man iptables | grep port
But I can find it ...
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Which pager opens when we view man in terminal? [duplicate]
As we know, there are multiple pagers available like less, more, etc. So, I was wondering which pager opens when we view the manual of any command using:
man command
I do believe that it’s less, but ...
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How do I tell `man` to use `batcat` to view man pages?
I would like to use batcat (or bat for short) to view man pages, because batcat will implement syntax highlighting with different colours.
I've installed batcat like this:
sudo apt install bat
I ...
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man calling nroff with invalid option -P
Whenever I try to open a man page, I receive an error:
$ man man
man: command exited with status 1: (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/...
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How to access the manpage fo a flatpak application?
Where does one find the manpage of a flatpak application?
For example, I know that Thunderbird usually has a manpage. However, I have tried the following two commands to no avail.
[user ~]$ man ...
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