To open the manual page of all sections, type man -a <page>. And note that the argument doesn't have to be a package name. It can be a command, a file, a function name, ...

Sep 29, 2016 · I'm writing a man page for a program that I am packaging. How can I display the manpage file that I created, to check if it's all right? Is there a way to pass my file directly to the …

Apr 15, 2018 · The second of the two commands are specifying (as your question asks) how to open a.8 file. Of course, you can get lots of other details about the man page commands and …

Feb 11, 2013 · 10 Gman From the Ubuntu man page, Gman is a "GTK+ based front-end for man, a good replacement for xman." Gman provides an index of the man pages installed on your …

Oct 28, 2010 · You can tell what sections a term falls in with man -k (equivalent to the apropos command). It will do substring matches too (e.g. it will show sprintf if you run man -k printf), so …

Oct 11, 2023 · Won't distinguish man pages that clash to the same name. This could happen if you sometimes view a man page using man -l <file> and your system has a same-named …

May 26, 2015 · See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. I have the manpage-dev package installed,so where is the programmers manpage (man 3) for open?

Jun 30, 2011 · How can I 'cat' a man page like I would 'cat' a file to get just a dump of the contents?

Jan 22, 2024 · How can I add line numbers to man pages or info pages in Linux? I want to use line numbers to navigate in man pages. I can write the man page in a file and then open it with …

Aug 30, 2013 · It can open multiple man pages specified as command line arguments. Save the script somewhere and give it execute permissions (chmod +x script.sh). Run it as ~/script.sh …