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This is really neat. On Ubuntu I needed to install groff and use gunzip.

wrgrs
– wrgrs

2014-10-04 13:09:40 +00:00
Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 13:09
Yes you are right, if man pages are compressed to *.gz then gunzip -c or zcat (or even gzcat) are the right tools.

jimmij
– jimmij

2014-10-04 13:22:27 +00:00
Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 13:22
man2html also performs this kind of conversion and can be used as a CGI script, so you can set up a local web server serving manual pages. It is available in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.

nwk
– nwk

2014-10-04 18:20:07 +00:00
Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 18:20

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