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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers MAN command for various shells Post 302869545 by verdepollo on Wednesday 30th of October 2013 01:39:51 PM
Old 10-30-2013
man pages are independent from the shell so you'll see the same info regardless of the one you use (assuming you have the same version of the manuals, of course). Some distributions pack all the man pages together into a single file (E.g.: man-pages-3.1.0.rpm)

Most times you'd want to see the man page for a particular utility (E.g: curl, ifconfig, lvm) that is not part of the shell.

Some commands are shell built-ins (Eg: cd, alias, source) so if you type man cd you'll be presented with the man page for your shell (built-ins Section).

FWIW - There used to be a book several years ago consisting of man pages *only*. Unfortunately manuals and sections change pretty quickly and I haven't seen that book anymore in the local bookstores.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dh_installmanpages

DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)						     Debhelper						     DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)

NAME

       dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installmanpages [debhelperoptions] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package build
       directories.

       This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
       dh_installman(1) instead.

       dh_installmanpages scans the current directory and all subdirectories for filenames that look like man pages. (Note that only real files
       are looked at; symlinks are ignored.) It uses file(1) to verify that the files are in the correct format. Then, based on the files'
       extensions, it installs them into the correct man directory.

       All filenames specified as parameters will be skipped by dh_installmanpages.  This is useful if by default it installs some man pages that
       you do not want to be installed.

       After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check to see if any of the man pages are .so links. If so, it changes them to
       symlinks.

OPTIONS

       file ...
	   Do not install these files as man pages, even if they look like valid man pages.

BUGS

       dh_installmanpages will install the man pages it finds into all packages you tell it to act on, since it can't tell what package the man
       pages belong in. This is almost never what you really want (use -p to work around this, or use the much better dh_installman(1) program
       instead).

       Files ending in .man will be ignored.

       Files specified as parameters that contain spaces in their filenames will not be processed properly.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

9.20120909							    2011-09-12						     DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)
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