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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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How to use a man page correctly

The question is very simple. I was reading the man page of getopts but I see no description on how the opstring should be. So, how should I know? I know I can Google it but I want to know how to get the answer from the documentation.
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How to open page in man with title of several words?

In man git page I read this string: See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see Everyday Git[1] for a useful minimum set of commands. The Git User's Manual[2] has a more in-depth introduction. Titles Everyday Git[1] and Git User's Manual[2] has…
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Sorting a column of CSV file resulting in 1123 appearing before 232

Specific question - bad title I am trying to sort a set of CSV data like - 2014/06/04 13:19:06.970,1124,Post Request,200,OK,text,true,,782,1,0 2014/06/04 13:18:27.241,237,Post Request,200,OK,text,true,,303,1,0 2014/06/04 13:12:15.973,2224,Post…
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Autotools suite misplaces "man" file leading to installation failure

In a software I have to tweak, the man file is located under doc/ along with a simple Makefile.am file: man_MANS = software.1 EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS) Upon installation, I expect make install to copy the manual under /usr/local/share/man/, but the…
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what is the different between man and man 3 unix commands?

my question describes it all actually. I wanted to know what is the difference between man and man 3 command to get the manual pages for unix commands?
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dump linux man pages into a structured/nonstructured dataset

is there a way to dump all linux man pages into a database or set of files? or do they already exist in some formats on the linux system where I can get a copy?
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Linux has No C Man Pages

This is peculiar. I recently installed an operating system called "Semplice" Linux. It's debian based and very similar to Crunchbang (Lightweight and openbox-oriented). That aside, I cannot run man printf or any C command for that matter. I can,…
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I need to print the process ID number next to the process name?

Right now what I'm doing is redirecting the output of pgrep sshd to a file, and what I'm being asked to do is print out the process name next to the process ID number. How exactly do I find the process ID number and the process name, if it isn't…
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Man pages showing up at end of sh script

I seem to be having trouble with a piece of code I'm writing (at least I think anyways). It's a script that parses a text file called test3_data.txt with a bunch of user ID's in them, and puts those user Id's into a variable called "USER_ID". I then…
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how to install IOCTL man pages for STREAMS in ubuntu server?

in my system Linux ubuntu 3.8.0-29-generic #42~precise1-Ubuntu man page for putmsg contains reference to STREAMS man page. Stevens refers the same entity as STREAMIO (p. 858), and this is what I've found…
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How to get nroff command to display font styles for man page

To test my man page, I'm using the nroff command. $ nroff -man myfile The results are formatted correctly, however my bold and italic font is not displayed. Man page (myfile) source: .TH Add 1 10/21/13 .SH NAME add \- add metadata to items .SH…
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Showing a man page in C++

I created a man page for my C++ application and I would like to show it to the user when a particular flag is specified in the command line. Is system("man myapplication") the only way to do this, or are there any better options?
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Remove page numbers from man pages in Solaris?

When I use Solaris, I get page numbers every 60 lines or so that look like this SunOS 5.11 Last change: 10 Feb 2009 1 Also, I get headers like User Commands ls(1) Is there any way to remove them?…
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How to specify the domain for a man page

I am trying to get man page for OpenSSL rsa. However when I type in man rsa I get the bash command rsa instead. How do I specify in the man command such that the OpenSSL RSA page will be displayed?
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Manual for CLISP

I want to read help for clisp function from REPL or just from shell. I found (symbol-plist) function for this which give this: (symbol-plist 'bit) (SYSTEM::TYPE-SYMBOL # SYSTEM::SETF-EXPANDER…
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