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10 questions linked to/from Can I get individual man pages for the bash builtin commands?
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Reading and searching long man pages
I finally got fed up when wanting to read about bash's read and it's -s option with man bash. I found the right spot eventually (around line 4500), but it was a frustrating as usual, since both /read ...
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How to read the man page for a bash builtin? [duplicate]
So, I needed to figure out how "exec" works. However, doing man exec brings me to a 99% useless man page describing what bash builtins are. It of course also does this with many other man pages such ...
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How to automatically scroll to requested command when the "General Commands Manual" is shown? [duplicate]
I sometimes end up requesting the man page for a "basic" command like set or pushd that is built-in into the bash/zsh shell.
So I type:
man set
…and I end up here:
BASH_BUILTINS(1) ...
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Why don't shell builtins have proper man pages?
All shell builtins share the same manual page:
BUILTIN(1) BSD General Commands Manual BUILTIN(1)
NAME
builtin, !
etc.
Then there is a little text describing what ...
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How do I better read man pages? [closed]
How do I search man pages for options? I currently do this:
/-<option>
Example:
To see what grep -i does, I do this:
man grep
and then
/-i.
Or, I can do this:
man grep | grep .-i
Is ...
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Why doesn't set or export have a man page? [duplicate]
I tried to look up info on export and set using man and was surprised to see there is nothing. Is this true, or is this something distribution specific? Why is the page missing?
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"man coproc" report error but "help coproc" works (where to find documentation for certain commands?) [duplicate]
I learned that from an instruction:
Co-processing does two things at the same time. It spawns a subshell in background mode and executes a command within that subshell.
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less pattern - endswith [ ] or $
Refer to can-i-get-individual-man-pages-for-the-bash-builtin-commands:
bashman () { man bash | less -p "^ $1 "; }
This function will jump to the desired bash manual parameter section directly.
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How can i navigate directly towards a certain section of a man page just from using the terminal? [duplicate]
I want to know what the -fix--missing argument does in the command below
For example:
man apt-get update -fix--missing
Now if i type the command as it is above, it will be the same thing as typing ...
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How to filter any part of description or option from manpage [closed]
I want to get output of any desired description or option from a man page.
Example: I want to get the description for the autoclean option from the apt-get man page:
Please suggest a command, ...
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