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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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Where should my Man script be located for it to work?

I'm trying to create a man script with out any success. Where in my files should I be placing my testScript.1 file for it to work visually as a man page? So far I've tried by storing it just within two newly created directories in my home directory…
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What does the "3" in printf(3) denote?

man pages of the printf and online documentations often show printf(3) when explaining the functionality of printf. What does the "3" denote?
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Difference between *.1.gz and *.1posix.gz files (UNIX manpages)

I am working on a project regarding UNIX manpages, and I realized that some of them exist in pairs of the form .1.gz and .1posix.gz. Why are there two manpages about the same utility (I am mainly interested in section 1)?…
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man nmap goes gibberish after nmap upgraded by brew

After executing brew upgrade to upgrade my package on macOS, the nmap is upgraded to the latest version(7.70), there appeared a failed link to ncat, with some possible conflict files related to man listed, then I followed the advice provided by…
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"man" can't find man page after installing Crunch Wordlist Generator on Fedora 25

[root@unknowna08cfd77f899 crunch-3.6]# ls charset.lst COPYING crunch crunch.1 crunch.c Makefile unicode_test.lst [root@unknowna08cfd77f899 crunch-3.6]# make make: Nothing to be done for 'all'. [root@unknowna08cfd77f899…
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How to install man page for "perf" tool on RHEL?

I'm running rhel 5.7 and found there's no man page for "perf". How can I install one, any package name or yum name contains "perf"?
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How to find out the default editor for man pages on osx?

I want to make the default editor for man pages to be vi. Right now it is something else. I know it is something else, because when I try to do a case insensitive search, it doesn't work the way it does in vim: /someWord\c the above does not work…
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How to find development information about struct timespec

I'm writing a C program using nftw() to walk a filesystem and retrieve file modification times for each file. nftw() calls a supplied function pointer and provides a struct stat as an argument. man stat(2) states that the time modification fields…
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-a option in `cp` command -- what does it do?

What does the -a option do in the cp command? I thought that the -a does not preserve the structure of directories. But, I have never found a case where the structure of directories has been destroyed by the -a option. is there such a case…
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Git manpage opens in texteditor instead of browser

Somehow whenever I type git --help which is supposed to open up the manpage for a given in my browser it instead opens it up in my default text editor. I'd assume it's a option or setting somewhere but I can't find anything weird…
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Meaning of special characters in help docs?

For example, in this help page about finding and replacing with gsub() in awk: I know now that the [ ] used in [, t] means that t is an optional argument, but I only know this now because my colleague told me. He did not know where he learnt this,…
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Using the man command in Unix, I want to list file names with file size etc.

By using the man command I want to list the names of the files I have already created with extra information such as filesize, date of modification etc. I know I have to use the man command possibly something like: man ls | documents But this…
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Some man pages not found

Ubuntu 12.04... I had fedora a couple of years back and I saw the man pages for the following there... unistd.h, sys/types.h, standard typedefs (suffixed by "_t") etc. I tried this... man unistd But it didn't find it :( I think those pages are not…
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Man page NAME (and the line under it) and DESCRIPTION (and lines under) in grep or

I am trying to condense a list of man pages for various tools to just: NAME ls – list directory contents DESCRIPTION For each operand that names a file of a type other than directory, ls displays its name as well as any requested,…
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How does one install man pages for C libraries on Linux?

I recently installed libusb-1.0-dev in Debian, but I noticed that I can't find any of the functions in the man pages. I've had a similar experience when installing SDL2 and other common libraries before. However, I can't find any information on…
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