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Man Pages
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- Snippet from Wikipedia: Man page
A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards and conventions, and even abstract concepts. A user may invoke a man page by issuing the
mancommand.By default,
mantypically uses a terminal pager program such asmoreorlessto display its output.Man pages are often referred to as an on-line or online form of software documentation, even though the
mancommand does not require internet access, dating back to the times when printed out-of-band manuals were the norm.
What is man.cx?
“Have you ever wanted to check a manual page for a tool you hadn't installed on the current machine? Well, it happened to me various times. There are some manpage interfaces available on the net, but they all just provide access to the GNU tools or maybe to the tools installed on the host, but they are always missing some pages. So I thought, why isn't there a page with all manpages? So I just built one.”
All Manpages?
“Well okay not all, but a lot. In fact, I extracted all the manpages from all available packages in the Debian testing distribution, plus some pages from other sources. This makes a total of 216768 available manpages (including translations).”
Cool! How do I use it?
“Just enter the name of the page you want in the inputbox at the top of the page. You can add a section number (in parentheses) if you want. But you can simply use the fast to type URL man.cx/pagename in your browser's addressbar.”