June 28, 2007

How can you see all relevant manual pages man command has found all at once (Unix)?

By default, man command will exit after displaying the first manual page it finds. How can you see all the relevant manual pages it's found, not only the first one?

  1. (Red Hat Linux)
  2. -P will allow to change to program used to display the pages (by default is “less” I think). If you do something like

    man -P cat ……

    man will use “cat” to display the pages. For instance

    man -P cat dir

    will give you all the manual pages for “dir”

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