Man pages are the documentation pages that come preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems
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man pages for c variable types
Are there any Unix man pages or similar standardized reference for variable type declarations (in c)?
For example, if I want details on the float variable type and different ways to declare it, is there a standardized reference in Unix? The…
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Why do some Linux system calls have two man pages?
Example:
http://linux.die.net/man/2/socket
http://linux.die.net/man/7/socket
In what way they are different?
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Git commands execution (like "git diff" or "git help commit") returns errors about "sensible-paper"
On my Xubuntu 14.04 system I've installed Git using
sudo apt-get install git
It's working all right (I'm only starting to learn it), but execution of
git diff
returns
error: cannot run sensible-paper: No such file or directory
as its first line.…
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How to create man page for ruby gem executable?
I'm developing a ruby gem, and part of it is a CLI which is installed on the user's system. Is there a way to create a man page for this executable and package it with the gem to be installed?
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How to make Emacs 'man' work over Tramp?
I have a question regarding the use of M-x man in Emacs. I'm working with Tramp all the time and often the installed program base on the remote server differs significantly from my local setup. I see that invoking M-x man involves looking for the…
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Man page commands not visible in iTerm2
I am using iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20140112) on OS X 10.8.5. When I try to view the man pages I am not able to view the command when the man page opens up. I can read the rest contents for that command in the man page, however I am not able to see the…
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Specific man page for shell built-in commands like 'source'
If you execute any of the following in the command line
man source
man readonly
man suspend
...
The output is the same manpage describing shell built-in commands in general.
I've searched for 'source' on line and I've found this more specific…
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What is the difference between malloc and malloc(3)?
While reading a hacker article on the jemalloc memory manager, the hacker keeps referring to malloc(3), not malloc. I wondered why.
Does he do so because it refers to a specific linux malloc implementation? Or simply to refer to all malloc…
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Valid Asciidoc to convert to Manpage (with a2x)
I want to write the manpage for my CLI-script with Asciidoc and convert it with
a2x --doctype manpage --format manpage MYMANPAGE.ASCIIDOC
I could not find any Asciidoc example out there which can successfully be converted to a manpage with this…
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How to generate multiple man pages?
I have a command line program written in Python. I would like to generate man pages with Sphinx.
I would like to have one page by commands like:
man myprog foo --> redirect to the man page of the foo command.
man myprog foo2 --> redirect to the man…
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Haskell "man" Pages?
Are there man pages for each individual function in Haskell? In other words can I type man fst somewhere and get a man or help page about the function? I am finding the profusion of functions overwhelming!
I am using GHC and GHCi.
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perldoc not showing documentation for installed perl modules
Installing Perl modules from the Linux command line using the cpan command works fine, such as:
$ cpan [Module]
and after finishing I can see the module’s documentation via:
$ perldoc [Module]
But doing this via cfengine, which would just automate…
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Search for string while viewing a manpage
When viewing a manpage say man ls, how does one search the content of the man page? (similarly, in vim you can call :/search_string what is a comprable command while viewing a man page?)
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What does grep(1) in manual of grep means?
Possible Duplicate:
Why do programs in Unix-like environments have numbers after their name?
GREP(1)
I see this when i man grep, what does the 1 mean?
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Where are the Git man pages online?
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What's the best place to find Git reference content online while kernel.org is down?
Since https://www.kernel.org/ was offline last month, the Git manual pages are no longer available on that site. These were the man pages…
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