Questions tagged [man]
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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bash -n is a not documented in manpages or info documents [closed]
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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Debian Bookworm always sets `COLUMNS` to be a little less than the actual terminal width
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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Customize the man command's status prompt to show percentage read
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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Manpage of 'regex(7)', from the shell
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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Is groff ignoring `.nh` command?
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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How do I append an option argument to the flag without spaces?
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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Word split between two lines is not found in man pages search
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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How to speed up full man DB search?
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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Is it possible to create a alias to a man page?
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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How does the credit system work in pam_pwquality?
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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coreutils man pages are missing in WSL Fedora
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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GREP error: warning: cannot select font 'i'
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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Where is "--localcacert" in Puppet man page?
I am new to Puppet. We have a command and it uses the --localcacert option. The command looks like this:
puppet agent -t --localcacert <path to CA cert> --ca_server <CA server hostname> --...
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How to Identify column names in terminal commands
Sometimes its useful to select/de-select specific columns from a command output data, but the columns are not always listed by name in the manpages. How can we find the names?
For example
Running two ...
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How do I add line numbers to the man page?
How can I add line numbers to man pages or info pages in Linux?
I want to use line numbers to navigate in man pages.
I can write the man page in a file and then open it with Vim, but is there a better ...
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