What about: man foo | grep bar Then you only get the line with "bar" in it. (append -C 1 at the end to get 1 line before and 1 after the term you grepped for).

What about: man foo | grep bar Then you only get the line with "bar" in it. (append -C 1 at the end to get 1 line before and 1 after the term you grepped for). And of course you can pimp your terminal experience by using fish (https://fishshell.com/ https://fishshell.com/) as it ships with autosuggestions and other really nice features. (Beware that it will not provide 100% POSIX compliance but if that's an issue you can use ZSH or pimp your bash as well). Then there is other kind of man pages like TLDR (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) which is curated by community and quite awesome ;-)