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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Man pages list, script or not? Post 302607446 by vbe on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 12:28:09 PM
Old 03-14-2012
all the man pages options:
Code:
man(1)                                                                  man(1)

NAME
       man - format and display the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS
       man  [-acdfFhkKtwW]  [--path]  [-m system] [-p string] [-C config_file]
       [-M pathlist] [-P pager] [-B browser] [-H htmlpager] [-S  section_list]
       [section] name ...

There is no *then can select the desired man page number", it is not like a book with an index... its a online documentation of a command therefore you type man <command> in ordinary usage, if you want a manual ( undestand book) then there are plenty on the market, look in the "dummies" FAQ...

You would usually find the man pages on a linux at /usr/share/man
If you go in /usr/share/man/man1 you will find here all the users unix/linux commands manuals...

Last edited by vbe; 03-14-2012 at 01:40 PM..
 

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whatis(1)							   User Commands							 whatis(1)

NAME
whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword SYNOPSIS
whatis command... DESCRIPTION
whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more information. If the line starts name(section)... you can do man -ssection name to get the documentation for it. Try whatis ed and then you should do man -s 1 ed to get the manual page for ed(1). whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command. whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database. This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail. FILES
/usr/share/man/windex Table of contents and keyword database ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdoc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 whatis(1)
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