Man pages are the documentation pages that come preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems
Questions tagged [manpage]
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Where are the POSIX message functions (msgsnd, msgrcv, etc) man pages in Mac?
I wanted to view the manual pages for the POSIX standard message functions: msgsnd, msgrcv, etc. All of them are defined in sys/msg.h and code using them works. But the manual pages are nowhere to be found, neither in my computer (Mac OS X Mountain…
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Pointing man pages to different location
In my environment, I am installing a different SSH server other than openSSH. When I issue a man ssh command, for example, I want it to point to the new ssh server man page, rather than the openssh man page. The only way I have seen to do it so far…
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Get man pages for driver functions
I am new to linux device drivers. I would like to know if there are man pages for the driver functions like register_chrdev. If yes, then how do I get them? Is there a package that I can download using apt-get?
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bash script for man with custom output
I'm trying to do a bash script which gives me only the first line of man for "n" commands.
example:
$ sh ./start.sh ls wazup top
ls - list directory contents
wazup - manpage does not exist
top - display Linux tasks
This is my current code:
!…
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Replace "man" by "?"
I am using R a lot. In R, you can call a man page for a function by writing
?print
I got used to that so much that I intermittently type that in a bash shell window as well. Now, I have set up an alias
?='man'
that almost cuts it: I can do, for…
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How to obtain man page contents in Python?
im running linux and i want to import some man pages to my application.
i came up with this:
p = subprocess.Popen(('man %s' % manTopic,), shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
if stdout:
but its no good, man is…
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How do I go directly to a particular (short) option on a manpage
Often I will open up the manpage for a command already knowing the option I am searching for and read its description. Sometimes simply searching for the option works immediately, sometimes the option is referenced elsewhere, sometimes the option…
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Create man pages for my own C library
In some C-source file I've seen comments in the format:
/**
* @bla bla bla
* bla bla..
*/
Someone told me that if I comment my .c / .h files properly, then with a certain tool I can autogenerate man pages from those files automatically.
Does…
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How can I search a PowerShell Get-Help entry?
On Linux, I often use grep with context to find usage information in man pages. Something like
man ls | grep -e '-a' -A 5
will give me enough context to know what the -a option does.
I think Select-String can do something similar, but I can't seem…
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No manual entry for fcntl problem
When I use `man fcntl' got the message:
No manual entry for fcntl
which the pkg is needed to install?
ps. I use debian.
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Catching wrong array reference in C++
How do I catch wrong array reference in C++? Why doesn't the following code work:
#include
int * problemNum = new int;
int (* p [100])() = {problem1, problem2, problem3};
...
try {
cout <<…
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How do I install the Git man pages on OS X?
I installed Git via the Mac OS X link here http://git-scm.com/download
After installing it, I try the following in the Terminal:
$ git help fetch
$ git help remote
$ man git
$ man git-fetch
However, I get the message No manual entry for…
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No man page for rails command
I can't access rails man page. How can I fix this? Thanks
nuno@Houdini:~/workspace/depot_a$ man rails
man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man1/rails.1.gz: No such file or directory
No manual entry for rails
edit: But how come some people have a man…
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How to convert AsciiDoc to Perl POD?
How to convert manpage written in AsciiDoc lightweight markup language automatically into Perl's POD (Plain Old Documentation)?
Perhaps something that converts from DocBook to POD (the conversion from AsciiDoc sources to manpage format i.e. troff…
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How to set all arguments of the Title line in manpage written in reStructuredText, converted to groff with pandoc
How can I get pandoc to properly set all of the arguments in the "Title line" (.TH) when converting from a .rst file to a man file?
According to the documentation man man-pages, the "Title line" takes positional arguments:
Title line
The…
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