Dumping man pages to text typically retains certain formatting such as foo^H^H^H___ for underscoring, and reverse-line feeds (not sure why). 'col -bx' removes these. Show Sample Output
Depending on the installation only certain of these man pages are installed. 12 is left out on purpose because ISO/IEC 8859-12 does not exist. To also access those manpages that are not installed use opera (or any other browser that supports all the character sets involved) to display online versions of the manpages hosted at kernel.org:
for i in $(seq 1 11) 13 14 15 16; do opera http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/iso_8859-$i.7.html; done
This takes quite a while on my system. You may want to test it out with /bin first, or background it and keep working.
If you want to get rid of the "No manual entry for [whatever]" and just have the [whatever], use the following sed command after this one finishes.
sed -n 's/^No manual entry for \(.*\)/\1/p' nomanlist.txt
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Broaden your knowledge of the utilities available to you in no particular order whatsoever! Then use that knowledge to create more nifty one-liners that you can post here. =p Takes a random number modulo the number of files in $dir, prints the filename corresponding to that number, and passes it as an argument to man.
Great idea camocrazed. Another twist would be to display a different man page based on the day of the year. The following will continuously cycle through all man pages:
man $(ls /bin | sed -n $(($(date +%j) % $(ls /bin | wc -l)))p)
Another one. Maybe not the quicker because of the sort command, but it will also look in other man sections. updated with goodevilgenius 'shuf' idea
Emacs backs up previous versions by default.
Build an awk array with all commands and then select a random one at the end. This avoids spawning extra processes for counting with wc or generating random numbers. Explicitly call /bin/ls to avoid interactions with aliases.
when we work with terminal often we open man pages for help if we did some mistakes and when we want to open the man page for command we are working with this one helps as many people may be knowing that '!!' performs the last command action we use it in sudo !! to perform the last action with root previleages man !! will also be helpful and handy thanx
Just type man and the name of the command you want information on followed by enter.. POW!!! there you have all you need to know on the subject.
Read all chapters up to 'Jumping', improve your effectiveness of wirking in terminal. Most useful are the Moving and Searching commands
A very interesting man page!
Display man page in plain text
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