I was wonderiong if ther is a way for a user to add a man page specific to thier account. similar to copying the .1 or .1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1 "cp *.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1". Except for using another folder as I don't have access to /usr/share/man/man1. I would think that this might involve... (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for the man page for scp version 1.2.27
I have an old redhat server that has a few large scripts that use this version and I want to know what the -A flag does and the man page is not on there. (4 Replies)
Man page is not working my system. It is giving the following the following error
> man ls
gdbm fatal: read error
with debug option
> man -d ls
...
....
...
...
using less as pager
checking for locale en_US
add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man... (4 Replies)
Help,
it seem that i am unable to get man help form solaris 10.
I am running SunOS unknown 5.10 Generic_120012-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
when ever i try to man a command what i get is "No manual entry" like the one below.
# man grep
No manual entry for grep.
# man ls
No manual entry for ls.... (8 Replies)
What does the last change means in man page .. does that this man page has not been updated since 2003 or something else ?
newfs-options
The options are documented in the newfs man page.
SunOS 5.10 Last change: 9 Dec 2003 1
System... (2 Replies)
For a long time, when I type man anything on my Mac, both the manpage header fonts and the background was black, so I had to use my mouse to highlight the manpage output to read it. It was really annoying.
The problem was the same both locally or using the terminal and going ssh somewhere.
... (1 Reply)
dear unix experts,
the 'man' command on my system isn't finding a manpage that is
in a MANPATH directory, or even when I specify the path directly:
12:56pm ilya@node1390 /idi/sabetilab/ilya/usr/share/man $ man -M . xemacs
No manual entry for xemacs
12:56pm ilya@node1390... (4 Replies)
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whereis
whereis(1) General Commands Manual whereis(1)NAME
whereis - Locates files for programs
SYNOPSIS
whereis [-bms] [-u] [-BMS directory... -f] program...
The whereis command locates source, binary, and/or reference page files for the specified program program.
OPTIONS
The -b, -m, and -s options can be used in combination to restrict the search. Searches for an executable program. Searches for the refer-
ence page for a program. Searches for the sources of a program.
Use the -B, -M, and -S options to change or limit the places whereis searches. Specifies the binary directories to search. Specifies the
reference page directories to search. Specifies the source directories to search.
The other options that can be used with whereis are as follows: Terminates the last directory list and signals the start of program names.
Used with other options to indicate when there is no file for program in the default or specified directory or directories (source, binary,
or reference page).
DESCRIPTION
The whereis program locates source, binary, and reference pages for the specified programs. When looking for a match, the program names
are stripped of leading pathname components and any trailing extensions of the form (for example, s. resulting from the use of the Source
Code Control System see sccs(1), are also handled.
The default directories searched by the whereis command are as follows: /etc /etc/nls /sbin /usr/bin /usr/lbin /usr/lbin/spell /usr/ccs/lib
/usr/lib /usr/local /usr/hosts /usr/sbin
EXAMPLES
To find files matching cat in the default source, binary, and reference directories, enter: whereis cat To search for reference pages for
app13 in the directory /usr/local/man, enter: whereis -M /usr/local/man -f -f appl3 To find the programs in /usr/bin that do not have ref-
erence pages in /usr/share/man/man1 with source files in /usr/src/cmd, enter: whereis -u -M /usr/share/man/man1
-S /usr/src/cmd -f /usr/bin/* To find which files in the current directory either have no reference pages in the default reference
directories or have more than one, enter: whereis -m -u *
FILES
Default binary directories. Default binary directories. Default reference directories. Default source directories.
SEE ALSO
Commands: apropos(1), find(1), man(1), which(1), catman(8)whereis(1)