Navigate to another man page within a man page

Question

Say I have given man ls.

Within this man page I found another function/keyword that I wanted to check up. Say I found the function name by doing /fun_name. Now I want to see the man page of this fun_name. Only way I know of is to quit to present man page and do man fun_name.

Is there a shortcut?

When inside `man` you could press `h` to see a detailed list of commands available and their shortcut. — legends2k, Oct 18 '14 at 14:11
Thanks @legends2k. I found this option `!command`. And if I do `!man fun_name`, it will work. — 0aslam0, Oct 18 '14 at 14:14

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '16 at 05:39

When inside the man page, do the following:

Press ! followed by a valid shell command.
For example : !man cat
You can exit by pressing q
It would say, !done (press RETURN). You can either press ENTER key or continue pressing q to get out of the multiple man pages

Navigate to another man page within a man page

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