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While we're on a tangent. Here's a quick way to list all man pages available on your system: $ man -k '' And if you just want to see the ones for high-lev
by xelxebar 4y ago
While we're on a tangent. Here's a quick way to list all man pages available on your system:
$ man -k ''
And if you just want to see the ones for high-level documentation (i.e. section 7), then
$ man -s 7 -k ''
does the trick. Sections 7 and 5, in particular, are full of hidden gems.
- klibertp 4y agoOn the topic of hidden gems. The info directory is frequently populated by default with manuals when you install a piece of software. These tend to be more in-depth and complete manuals then the man pages for the same tool. Just type `info` in a terminal and be amazed. Emacs has a convenient info viewer also, under `C-h i`.
- tingletech 4y agousually `info` only works on a GNU derived OS. `man -k` has worked on every flavor of unix I've met. edit: `man -k ''` might be a GNUism too. Just tried on a BSD derived OS and got back nothing.