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Man pages are the documentation pages that come preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page

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What does .Er mean in a man page?

in a man page I'm editing I see the following: .Er ENOENT ENOENT what exactly does that mean? I looked in the man(1) man page but don't see anything about how to read the raw files.
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why do I get the man pages error and how to fix it in fedora core 19?

$ man 2 listen No manual entry for listen in section 2 How can I fix it? What is the issue here? I am using FC19.
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Decoding a man page

I'm taking the git man page as an example, but I have seen the example I am about to use many places throughout UNIX/Linux. Under the git man page, it has the following header: Main Porcelain Commands Underneath this header, there are a lot of…
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Different color schemes by `MANPATH`?

System: OS X 10.9.x (Mavericks) Goal: To be able to change the color scheme used for manpages depending on whether the displayed page is in the default system location (/usr/share/man/…) or the location where package-manager installed manpages live…
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Is there man page making software?

I was wondering if anyone knew of any manpage making software? I have looked at the OSX manpages and dissected them, but I'm looking at something that will easily convert from a txt file to a manpage for me, much like Octopress converts from…
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How does man-pages versions relate to Linux kernel and libc versions?

I am working with Ubuntu 13.04 running a Linux kernel version 3.8.0-32-generic. The man-pages version is: [manu@laptop] man-pages: man --version man 2.6.3 I am wondering what is the link between this man-pages version and my kernel version. While…
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tcl cannot see manpage in tclsh

I've just installed Tcl/Tk 8.5.11 on my Ubuntu 12.04.3 64bit. I installed with the following two commands: %sudo apt-get install tcl %sudo apt-get install tk Now I can use tclsh and almost everything is fine. The only problem is that I cannot…
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Why do bash's man pages have double letters when written to file?

I've been wondering about this for a while. Whenever I run a command of the form "man [command] >> file.txt", there's a weird phenomenon where words that were bold when I viewed the man page in Terminal appear in the text file with each letter…
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avoid space in manpage after .BI

I'm attempting to write a somewhat portable manpage, in which I need to describe the format of a particular string. I use the .BI macro to switch between fixed and variable parts, however I have more than six components (which is non-portable), and…
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Linux: Man command in application installed only for current user

Manual files in Linux are stored in /usr/share/man. Before, my application could only be installed by a root user and it put the manual files in this directory. Now, I want to enable non-root installation; to achieve this, all my data and…
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Adding Documentation of a library to manual pages

I am working with Ubuntu 12.04.1 . I am learning to make a basic video player using FFmpeg library in C . My manual pages don't show any entries for the headers/functions of the library . Can someone please show me a way to add the documentation to…
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Mac OS C++ and libstdc++ documentation

I am using AppCode to develop in C++ on MacOS but encountered an issue that I cannot overcome no matter how hard I try. I am missing C++ documentation on MacOS. When I query a man pages for stdc function then everything is just all right, even…
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Ubuntu man page ambiguity

There are certain C functions whose names are ambiguous with the Ubuntu commands eg: getopt. How do I view the man page of these functions? No doubt it is easily available on the internet but I am keen to not leave the terminal as far as possible.
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How to "quickly" get information about standard structure?

Starting to write C code for the Linux platform, I am using man tool to get information about standard libraries functions. Now I wonder what are the solution to get easily information about the structures used by these functions. To get an example…
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DocBook: How to link to another man page?

I am writing a couple of man pages in DocBook. I would also like to convert them to HTML for display on the web. How can I insert a link from one man page to another, such that it appears in man as target(1) but appears on the web as a hyperlink…
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