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HydroDiOxide

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From: Assen, The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 78

[SOLVED] overview man pages

I was wondering how can get an overview of all the available man pages on my system.

Last edited by HydroDiOxide (2008-06-17 08:25:22)

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somedrew

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-05-14

Posts: 140

Re: [SOLVED] overview man pages

One way, but not the best, would be to list the contents of /usr/share/(man1, man3, man4, man5, man7, man8)
cheers,

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 9,939

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Re: [SOLVED] overview man pages

Don't forget /usr/man as many packages haven't moved their man pages to /usr/share/man yet.

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 1,872

Re: [SOLVED] overview man pages

For KDE users: Open Konqueror with this URL -> man:/

Or use xman, from xorg-apps.

Last edited by byte (2008-01-29 13:41:11)

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m.bork

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From: USA and Russia

Registered: 2009-01-10

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] overview man pages

You should install xman. It shows all names of man pages an allows to choose which of them to see.