Sep 29, 2016 · I'm writing a man page for a program that I am packaging. How can I display the manpage file that I created, to check if it's all right? Is there a way to pass my file directly to the …

To open the manual page of all sections, type man -a <page>. And note that the argument doesn't have to be a package name. It can be a command, a file, a function name, ...

Apr 15, 2018 · The second of the two commands are specifying (as your question asks) how to open a.8 file. Of course, you can get lots of other details about the man page commands and …

Oct 11, 2023 · Won't distinguish man pages that clash to the same name. This could happen if you sometimes view a man page using man -l <file> and your system has a same-named …

Feb 11, 2013 · At the command line try examples: yelp man:printf yelp 'man:printf(3)' or use yelp man:printf & to carry on working at the command line. For a more permanent solution try …

May 26, 2015 · See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. I have the manpage-dev package installed,so where is the programmers manpage (man 3) for open?

Jun 30, 2011 · How can I 'cat' a man page like I would 'cat' a file to get just a dump of the contents?

Jan 2, 2019 · How do I install a man page file system-wide? For example, if I have a man page file examplecommand.1, how do I install it so that I can just type man examplecommand to …

Aug 30, 2013 · It can open multiple man pages specified as command line arguments. Save the script somewhere and give it execute permissions (chmod +x script.sh). Run it as ~/script.sh …

Oct 28, 2010 · The number corresponds to what section of the manual that page is from; 1 is user commands, while 8 is sysadmin stuff. The man page for man itself (man man) explains it and …