Man pages are the documentation pages that come preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems
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How to install man pages for C++11
I know the man pages for C++ are installed with libstdc++6--doc, but when I'm looking for a function like stoull there is no man page. Even apropos does not find anything.
Man pages are available online:…
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I have downloaded a static built of a linux program. Where should I put the man pages?
I have downloaded a static built of a linux program (ffmpeg) I want to use in my Ubuntu 14.04
I just copy the executable (ffmpeg) into /usr/local/bin and the program works. I have been doing so for long now with this program. The author of the…
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How to add literal code lines in manual page?
I'd like to embed a block of code like this:
foreach my $n (1..10) {
print "$n\n";
}
in a groff 'man' document and not have it reformat it into a single line. I'd like to suppress all formatting, and not have groff recognize and process any…
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How can I search the man pages?
I need to find a an option for ssh but the listing is to long when I do
man ssh
It appears that the man page is being opened in an editor of some kind and there is a colon prompt.
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What is cpplink
I am trying to get my hands on a C++ library called dislin using ubuntu 14.04. The test provided by the developers is simply:
cpplink -c exa_cpp
And it compiles correctly. I've also built another script that compiles using the cpplink command. But…
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Where is the convention to mark a symbol with `' in comments comes from?
I see this both in man page and in emacs lisp doc string, it looks like a convention; is there a formal document about that?
what contexts should I follow this rule?
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Where can I find Texinfo documentation?
I want to write the manual for an open-source software. As the manual will contain several pages I considered texinfo the best option since the manual will be too long for a man page and the user should be able to open it in a ssh session.
However,…
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man: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/std::basic_iostream.3cxx: No such file or directory
I have installed ligstdc++-4.9-dev and libstdc++-4.9-doc, and I want to scan the information of the library of c++ through man like the style in C.
But when I run "man std::iostream", I encount an error shows that man: can't open…
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How to make `MANPATH=~/.nmap/doc man 1 nmap` look for nmap.1?
I recently decided that since quite often I experiment with the latest version of nmap, it might be a good idea to keep its SVN checkout in ~/.nmap without installing and just run svn up; make to make it up to date. I added ~/.nmap to $PATH and just…
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"brew install git" fails trying to download manpages
I'm attempting to install Git using Homebrew on OS X 10.6.8 running XCode 3.2.6 (the most up-to-date for Snow Leopard). When I run brew install git, I receive the following output:
==> Downloading…
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Rewrite cgi script url to another
How can I redirect a file system directory to map it to an url ?
I have installed man2html on my web server to access man pages via a website.
apt-get install man2html
I found that it is a cgi script, it was installed in…
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How to have msysgit use the terminal for `--help`?
When I enter command such as git config --help, instead of showing help directly I end up with a browser-launch showing an HTML help. While that surely looks fancy, it's usually not what I want. So how can I have msysgit's help behave just the way…
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man does not find man pages associated with the source files pointed to by symbolic links
My hard drive recently crashed, so I took the opportunity to upgraded from Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.9.5 from a fresh install. Mavericks comes with "gcc" Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.51). I want to use gcc-mp-4.8 that I downloaded from…
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Can I use `man` for a command in a specified path?
In my CentOS server, I have two commands: /bin/vi and /usr/local/bin/vi.
If /usr/local/bin/vi presents before /bin/vi in PATH, man vi will show the man page for /usr/local/bin/vi.
How can I get man page for /bin/vi then? I have tried man /bin/vi,…
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Understanding sed
I am trying to understand how
sed 's/\^\[/\o33/g;s/\[1G\[/\[27G\[/' /var/log/boot
worked and what the pieces mean. The man page I read just confused me more and I tried the info sai Id but had no idea how to work it! I'm pretty new to Linux.…
