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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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Why are there missing commands on some manpages? [closed]
Early on in my Linux journey, I found some manpages to be lacking. One example is that on Fedora 37, I forgot the command to display the total filesize of all files in a directory. I knew it involved ...
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Unable to resolve sphinx-build on ArchLinux VM (installed via pacman)
I'd like concise information on kernel-internal functions, structures, and macros at hand while I develop kernel modules.
I have the Linux-kernel repo cloned on my ArchLinux VM, and I would like to ...
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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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Debian - command fatlabel is missing but package dosfstools that contains the command is already installed
I want to change the volume label of a FAT usb with fatlabel but when I try to run the command in terminal it does not recognize it.
root@debian:/home/a# fatlabel --help
bash: fatlabel: command not ...
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What is the official 'man' location in the web?
I had the following experience:
ps command: how to know all the headers with their respective descriptions?
The answer is totally valid, the man available by the OS itself is not updated, so the web ...
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How do you use grep with man command? [closed]
I saw a guy how used this command man ssh grep -e "version number" and then got the option printed out for him. But when I do the same command, I get the same result as man ssh. So can the ...
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Linux - Where to place manuals and docs for user binaries?
For applications installed via system package manager, binaries, man pages, and docs go in /usr/bin/, /usr/share/man/man<n>/, and /usr/share/doc/<app-name>/ respectively. For example:
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Installing man pages for section 9 (kernel routines)
I use kernel.org docs to read about kernel functions. Now I am trying to make possible reading manuals for kernel-mode functions, such as printk with man 9 printk. The section 9 is used for this ...
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man pages have odd characters in the output
I am using Fedora and Gnome. I use GNOME Terminal and I am experiencing some odd output characters which seem to surround certain keywords on output.
1mNAME0m
sync - Synchronize cached writes ...
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Processing triggers for man-db. Not building database; man-db/auto-update is not 'true , error
I get this message every time I install a new package in KDE neon via terminal,
Is it normal and I should ignore it or I should fix this?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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How to obtain the complete set of man pages from man7.org on a Linux machine?
I sometimes find that man7.org has available man pages not found on locally on my Linux distribution.
An example is veth(4) that provides information on veth network devices.
A quick inspection using ...
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what is sections in man pages in linux
I am quite new to Linux and I have started learning it. There is a topi in the book about the Man pages and there are sections in man pages. I am trying to understand it but it goes over my head.
When ...
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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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