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”man ascii” has as much guarantee to work on a POSIX system as a command called ”ascii” seeing neither (specifically a man page called ”ascii”) are part of the
by amszmidt 2y ago
”man ascii” has as much guarantee to work on a POSIX system as a command called ”ascii” seeing neither (specifically a man page called ”ascii”) are part of the standard.
So you will either get command not found, or man page not found.
- account42 2y agoNeither being guaranteed does not mean both have the same likelyhood of existing. The man page comes preinstalled on most modern non-embedded POSIX systems. The command does not.