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Is there a better way to browse man pages?
(lemmy.ml)
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Sorry for my previous comment. I was commenting before reading the entire post and was missing the point. On a sidenote, its often enough and helpful to just list the options with
program -h
or--help
. Sometimes the help option has more information or is easier to understand than the man document.When I search for options in a man document, I usually try it with putting a dash in front of it as
-x
or--ignore
in example. For really large documents sometimes it can help to add a space before it "-x
" or a comma after it "-x,
" depending on how its actually written. BTW the man program itself has a builtin help you can show by just pressingh
while looking at a document.