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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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open() system call header file requirements

I am using x86_64 GNU/Linux with gcc. SYNOPSIS section of man -s2 open says: #include #include #include int open(const char *pathname, int flags); int open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode); int…
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Redirecting man page output to file results in double letters in words

I redirected the output of man djpeg into a text file so that I can reference it as I learn to use it. My instruction was man djpeg > textfile.txt. However, the output looks something like this: LS(1) BSD General Commands Manual …
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Navigate to another man page within a man page

Say I have given man ls. Within this man page I found another function/keyword that I wanted to check up. Say I found the function name by doing /fun_name. Now I want to see the man page of this fun_name. Only way I know of is to quit to present man…
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how to create manual entry for deb package

Where do I write a manual entry when creating a deb package? Is there any formatting rule/best practice to respect? I'm very new to deb package creation. Following some tutorials, I just created a package that installs/executes nicely, so now I'd…
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Is it possible to use "man std::find" in linux?

I am using Ubuntu, and have already installed libstdc++6-4.7-doc . But it seems man only works with classes, for example $ man std::vector $ man std::istream works, but $ man std::find doesn't work, any ideas? Thanks in advance! MODIFIED: after…
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How can I use Unicode characters in Perl POD-derived man pages?

And if this isn't possible, what is the best practice for dealing with man pages derived from UTF-8-encoded POD? The first thing to do in order to work with Unicode in POD is to use the directive =encoding UTF-8 (as discussed here). The pod2text…
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Preview man-page without installing package

I've checked out some typical open source project which is using auto-tools. I want to hack a bit on this package, but I would also like to change something in the man-page of the package. The man-page source is found…
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What does the ellipsis (...) mean in man pages

I was reading the ln man page and came across the following SYNOPSIS. ln [-Ffhinsv] source_file ... target_dir What does symbol ... above mean?
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Why are *nix commands referred to as Man(1), Diff(1), Cat(1), etc

Possible Duplicate: Why do programs in Unix-like environments have numbers after their name? What does the (1) mean?
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Distinguishing a pipe from a file in Unix

Given a FILE*, is it possible to determine the underlying type? That is, is there a function that will tell me if the FILE* is a pipe or a socket or a regular on-disk file?
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Manual pages for C programming on Ubuntu

I want a manual for C programming language to install it on Ubuntu 11.10 , I want to execute man function and be able to view the documentation as I do on system calls and functions. Which package should I install ?
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Include variables from external files or shell commands in custom man page?

I am writing a few custom man pages and I would like to include things that might change often such as the date of the man page's writing. For example, one is in a git repo that I would like to update the man page's date whenever a change is made…
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tcgetpgrp returns 0 -- implications?

Context: I'm working on an application that needs to determine whether the pseudo-terminal opened by a process is its controlling terminal. I'm trying to use the tcgetpgrp() libc/system call to achieve this. Observations: 1) I noticed that…
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Why is this "can't break line" warning from grep of gcc man page?

I was trying to find a line ending with -s with the following command but got warnings: $ man gcc | grep '\-s$' :4808: warning [p 54, 13.2i]: can't break line $ man gcc | egrep '\-s$' :4808: warning [p 54, 13.2i]:…
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C++ man pages in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu linux I can't get any man pages for C++ keywords. Is there some kind of package I can install to fix this?
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