Timeline for Difference between 'man ls' and 'ls --help'?
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні |
On some systems, man man lists the names of the manual sections.
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| Feb 6, 2012 at 8:15 | history | edited | Andrew Marshall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Correct spelling
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 11:34 | vote | accept | Dili | ||
| Dec 13, 2011 at 6:55 | vote | accept | Dili | ||
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 6:30 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 13, 2011 at 5:10 | comment | added | Andrew Marshall | @holygeek This is what I mean. I also forget which is system calls, libraries, etc. I'm probably getting a bit carried away for a comment, though. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 5:06 | comment | added | holygeek |
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "names of each manual section". I'm guessing you want something like man foo|grep '^[A-Z]' (for that I don't know the command line switch that does it directly too)? or maybe man -wa foo?
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 5:03 | comment | added | Andrew Marshall |
@holygeek Do you happen to know how to find the names of each manual section from the terminal? I feel like I used to know and now it's escaping me and I can't find it in man man.
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 5:00 | comment | added | holygeek |
I seldom do man man, but when I do, I always learn new stuff from it :)
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 4:54 | comment | added | Andrew Marshall | @holygeek awesome, I didn't know that, actually. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 4:52 | comment | added | holygeek |
To find out which document man will show you for ls you can type man -w ls
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 4:51 | history | answered | Andrew Marshall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |