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Old School way of viewing Unix Man pages

“nroff -man /path/to/manpage.man | more”. ie: they’re just nroff formatted text files. The files are often gzip compressed on disk nowadays, so on Linux, the command pipeline to (say) the ls command’s man page from a shell prompt is: zcat … Continue reading

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