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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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man page editor for text screen

Do you know any editor for man(1) pages which work on text screen (terminal and console)? Searching the interned did not gave any useful results as the words are very common. Or should I learn the details of the format and write it by hand?
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Where can I find the documentation for the default display for ?

I am assuming it is inline or block but I wanted to verify it in the documentation and could not find it on MDN. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input I am using input with type set to text.
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Will an epoll be woken up on EPOLLERR/EPOLLHUP if no other flags are provided?

I want to add a file descriptor to an existing epoll instance but not have it wake up yet. Specifically, I would like to make sure that EPOLLERR and EPOLLHUP are not raised. I am using EPOLLONESHOT to wake up a single thread at a time, then…
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Can't find any man pages in Fedora Docker Image

After installing the man pages via dnf, I still can't find them inside /usr/share/man. docker run --rm -it fedora bash -c "dnf install -y man-pages && ls -lR /usr/share/man" Did I miss something?
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Include man pages in ubuntu docker image?

https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-ubuntu-core/issues/122 RUN apt-get -y update && \ dpkg -l | grep ^ii | cut -d' ' -f3 | xargs apt-get install -y --reinstall I use the above command to install manpages in an ubuntu docker image. But I got…
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Providing Documentation for an Unix command?

I made an Unix command called macmac2unix, which converts a Word file from Mac to Unix. How can I provide documentation for my command? I want to read about my command with man $man macmac2unix
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How to collect the output of man command in tcl?

Can somebody suggest me, how to collect output of man command in tcl? I am writing :- set hello [ man {command-name}] and when am executing the script, the program gets halted and man commands start running in the foreground, prompting the…
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What is the meaning of each field with the output of `stat` on OSX?

$ stat Cargo.toml 16777220 9094681422 -rw-r--r-- 1 tonytonyjan staff 0 109 "Jan 19 10:05:13 2019" "Dec 31 17:52:29 2018" "Dec 31 17:52:29 2018" "Dec 14 16:32:26 2018" 4096 8 0 Cargo.toml man stat does not explain but mention that the output is…
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Is there documentation that describes what C function names "stand for" (not what they do--rather, what the abreviated name means)?

Sometimes I have a hard time deciphering what C function names stand for. For example: the function sigprocmask changes the set of blocked signals, but I have no clue what the abbreviation procmask means. The linux man page describes the behavior of…
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Writing manpages in 20XX

I wrote a program, and I'd like to write a manpage for it. I started to learn Groff, and I really find it awful. The man macros are difficult to understand, difficult to use, and a real obstacle to productivity. The mdoc macros add a nice "semantic"…
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The use of brackets in VIM help pages

I'm trying to get into the habit of using VIM help pages, and came across the following line when reading about command-line ranges: /{pattern}[/] the next line where {pattern} matches *:/* Now, my understanding of the help-pages syntactic…
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While viewing a man page, how can I see the directory it was loaded from? (e.g., for local share vs system share determination)?

I am just trying to figure out from which absolute path the currently viewed man page was loaded - its absolute path filename.
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Viewing man pages through CLion on Windows' Documentation Viewer

CLion on Linux shows the corresponding man page when viewing the documentation for a C library function or a system call. I have both man and man pages installed locally on Windows and in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Is there a way to point…
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No manual entry for any command

I get the below response on trying to view manual for any command No manual entry for <> On $ echo $MANPATH, It says .:/usr/local/man:/usr/man $ echo $PATH gives the following…
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Using getopts with no argument for help output

Hi I'm creating a bash script which uses getopts. Now I want to create an "-h" parameter to get the help. But every time I have to give one argument to the parameter. Now test.sh -h test What I want test.sh -h help help help while getopts…
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