{"id":124,"date":"2011-05-25T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=124"},"modified":"2011-05-25T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:38:11","slug":"old-school-way-of-viewing-unix-man-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Old School way of viewing Unix Man pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;nroff -man \/path\/to\/manpage.man | more&#8221;. ie: they&#8217;re just nroff formatted text files.<\/p>\n<p>The files are often gzip compressed on disk nowadays, so on Linux, the command pipeline to (say) the ls command&#8217;s man page from a shell prompt is:<\/p>\n<p><code>zcat \/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/ls.1.gz | nroff -man - | more<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;nroff -man \/path\/to\/manpage.man | more&#8221;. ie: they&#8217;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&#8217;s man page from a shell prompt is: zcat &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,20,19,17],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-presence","tag-linux","tag-man","tag-shell","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}