Questions tagged [man]

You may have been directed here because someone felt that you would have been better prepared to solve your issue without assistance if you'd had a better understanding of *NIX Manual (man) pages. This page is intended as a helpful guide toward understanding some of the tricks & lesser-known pitfalls of the man reference system. Please feel free to change/add to/replace this as needed!

You may have been directed here because someone felt that you would have been better prepared to solve your issue without assistance if you'd had a better understanding of *NIX Manual (man) pages. This page is intended as a helpful guide toward understanding some of the tricks & lesser-known pitfalls of the man reference system.

Please feel free to change/add to/replace this as needed!

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What is the maximum value acceptable for xargs -P argument?

In this answer they mention 10 I did man xargs and couldn't find what's the maximum limit. Is it possible to send 10000 cURL requests per second? How about 50000 cURL requests per second? I mean all 50000 executing at same time?
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less gives a bunch of files opened

I tried to open a file using less: less /home/me/Desktop/file1 This is returning unexpected result like this: /usr/bin/less: 1: [: missing ] At least one file or directory argument required. Use --help to show usage. 7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright…
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Strange content when extracting zipped manpage sources

For a little project at university if have to extract the zipped manpage sources, "nroff" them and parse the "nroffed" manpage for options, option arguments etc.. My script works just fine, except for some .gz files which don't contain the sources…
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Download only man pages / all man pages

Frequently I'll be in a situation where I want to read the man page for some software, even though I don't have it installed. Specifically this time I want the syslogd man page, but I use Arch Linux with systemd (which replaces syslogd). And if…
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Error executing help manual pages on Fedora 25 for all kind of man pages

[user1@testMachine ~]$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch Distributor ID:…
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