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Note: this page should be titled man (all lowercase). It is titled Man due to the technical limitations of Mediawiki.

Contents 1 man 2 tips 2.1 set your LANG 2.2 save a large man page to a text file 2.3 man -k 3 see also

man

man is the standard document reader for Linux.

tips

set your LANG

If you get funny characters in your man output, try:

[ggeller@ws05 ~]$ export LANG=en_US

save a large man page to a text file

ggeller@harrison:~$ man bash | col -b > bash.txt

The you can look at the file with emacs.

man -k

man -k searches the man pages for the specified string.

ggeller@harrison:~$ man -k tutorial
ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial (3perl) - Writing a module with MakeMaker
lwptut (3pm)         - - An LWP Tutorial
Net::DBus::Tutorial (3pm) - tutorials on the Perl DBus APIs
Net::DBus::Tutorial::ExportingObjects (3pm) - tutorials on providing a DBus service
Net::DBus::Tutorial::UsingObjects (3pm) - tutorial on accessing a DBus service
perlboot (1)         - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
perldebtut (1)       - Perl debugging tutorial
perlopentut (1)      - tutorial on opening things in Perl
perlothrtut (1)      - old tutorial on threads in Perl
perlpacktut (1)      - tutorial on *(C`pack*(C' and *(C`unpack*(C'
perlreftut (1)       - Mark's very short tutorial about references
perlretut (1)        - Perl regular expressions tutorial
perlthrtut (1)       - tutorial on threads in Perl
perltooc (1)         - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
perltoot (1)         - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
perlxstut (1)        - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
Test::Tutorial (3perl) - A tutorial about writing really basic tests

Hmm... All the tutorials are for perl?

see also

man man
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