Questions tagged [manpage]
A manpage is a piece of documentation (not just a single page) that comes with most programs installed on Ubuntu.This is invoked with the name of a program to call up a help manual with various sections detailing the operation of the program.
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What means "can't resolve man7/groff_man.7"?
When I leave the explanation of the "man man" command on Ubuntu 24.04 ("q"), I see "man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7". This is not happening with other comands like &...
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man what iptables docs for --sport and --dport
It's hard to find the documentaion for --sport and --dport by using "iptables --help" or "man iptables".
iptables --help | grep port
man iptables | grep port
But I can find it ...
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Which pager opens when we view man in terminal? [duplicate]
As we know, there are multiple pagers available like less, more, etc. So, I was wondering which pager opens when we view the manual of any command using:
man command
I do believe that it’s less, but ...
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How do I tell `man` to use `batcat` to view man pages?
I would like to use batcat (or bat for short) to view man pages, because batcat will implement syntax highlighting with different colours.
I've installed batcat like this:
sudo apt install bat
I ...
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man calling nroff with invalid option -P
Whenever I try to open a man page, I receive an error:
$ man man
man: command exited with status 1: (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/...
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How to access the manpage fo a flatpak application?
Where does one find the manpage of a flatpak application?
For example, I know that Thunderbird usually has a manpage. However, I have tried the following two commands to no avail.
[user ~]$ man ...
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How do I view the manual page for Firefox snap
I'm using Firefox 113.02 on Ubuntu 22.04.
These commands produce nothing:
._. man firefox
No manual entry for firefox
._. find / -name "man" -xdev 2>/dev/null | grep firefox
I can see ...
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No man page for strcpy_s
I don't have the man page for some c11 string functions such as strcpy_s and strncpy_s. I have the most updated version of gcc but somehow it doesn't recognize gcc -std=c11 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -Wall -...
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How to print the manual of gzip program
I am new to Linux and I need to print the manual of gzip program but I am not able to figure it out. I have written the command man gzip but I am not sure whether it is reading or printing it.
I am ...
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Why is `man 3 printf` almost one year behind `glibc ver 2.35`?
glibc ver 2.35 was released 0n Feb 3, 2022, and added the %b and %B binary conversion specifiers. This is a long wished-for feature to display values as a string of "ones and zeros". I'd ...
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apt-key command: What is the difference among '--recv-key', '--recv-keys' and '--recv' options?
For documentation purposes, about the apt-key command in many places I found these two variations:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys PUBKEY
sudo apt-key adv --...
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magic file capable of detecting file types
how to make a magic file called ft_magic that will be formatted appropriately to detect
files of 42 file type, built with a "42" string at the 42nd byte.
i tried to make a ft_magic file ...
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How to set Vi key bindings for man pages
How can I set J/K keys to go up and down in manpages?
In less the keys work, but for some reason, manpages have configured J to be used for go to line. So when I accidentally press J, I am always ...
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How do I link to a manpage on ubuntu.com without specifying an Ubuntu release?
Ubuntu has a website providing the manual pages ("manpage") shipped with Ubuntu packages. For example, here are the manpages for rsync:
Ubuntu version
Link to rsync manpage
Ubuntu 18.04 ...
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Missing manpages on a Ubuntu LTS 22.04 Server minimal install
I've installed a 22.04 LTS Ubuntu Server as a minimal install and installed the following packages :
vim man-db manpages dialog bash-completion screen
Now when I run man ls, ubuntu is asking me to ...
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