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mentallaxative

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Longest man page you've seen?

Self-explanatory title. I just opened up mplayer's man page to look at the shortcuts and noticed the dizzying number of options it has.

monstermudder78

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Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 120

Re: Longest man page you've seen?

VLC doesn't have a man page, but

vlc -H

is long enough that I can't scroll all the way back to the beginning.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Longest man page you've seen?

man 4 wireshark-filter

What did I win?

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kludge

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

bash

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Dieter@be

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

bash

+1

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initbox

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 172

Re: Longest man page you've seen?

bash

+1

You people should just paste the output of wc -l.

bash is 4892.
mplayer is 8086.

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

Damn, I also thought of mplayer ... know that it's long, because some time ago I had to search for something and just thought "will this man ever end?!"

string

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

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mentallaxative

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

colin@workbench ~]$ man gcc | wc -l
12743

Mmm, yes you're right string, gcc has a whopper of a man page. I don't have wireshark though, so I can't comment on how big its man page is.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

Over 6 MB uncompressed, almost 230000 lines.

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string

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

I don't use wireshark (still stuck in "tcpdump land") so I've not seen its manpage. Longest man page I've ever seen (thread title), as of yet: gcc's

tonyisnt

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Registered: 2008-03-18

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

MPlayer.  It only kind of counts though, I think, because it's a man page for mencoder as well.

karoshi

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From: Marburg

Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 182

Re: Longest man page you've seen?

I don't use wireshark (still stuck in "tcpdump land") so I've not seen its manpage.

Here it is: http://os.cqu.edu.au/cgi-bin/man/man2ht … ark-filter

I hope you have a fast internet connection

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pauldonnelly

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

fvwm has a pretty huge man page. 8707 lines.

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

It isn't the longest by line count, but the CVS manpage is the worst one I have ever seen when it comes to usability because of its length. Try finding things in it using search (which for gcc works surprisingly well). The cvs manpage makes it painful.

baeksu

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From: Suwon, Korea

Registered: 2007-09-03

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

fvwm has a pretty huge man page. 8707 lines.

I believe the site used to boast that fvwm had the second longest man page in existence, but I can't find the quote (nor remember what was the longest).

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davvil

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

zshall

Although this is a "meta man page", so I do not know if it can enter the "competition"

They also have the (in)famous quote

Because zsh contains many features, the zsh manual has been split into a number of sections.

fumbles

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 246

Re: Longest man page you've seen?

I don't use wireshark (still stuck in "tcpdump land") so I've not seen its manpage.

Here it is: http://os.cqu.edu.au/cgi-bin/man/man2ht … ark-filter

I hope you have a fast internet connection

$man wireshark-filter | wc -l
198040

I think we have a winner!

Redroar

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Registered: 2008-03-17

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

Is each word on it's own line!?

I thought zshall was bad....

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elmer_42

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

$man wireshark-filter | wc -l
198040

Yeah, but a lot of those are created because of the huge amount of unneeded line breaks in the man page.

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kazuo

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

zsh is big

man zshall|wc   
  24336  165606 1508350

More info

du -scb $(find /usr/share/man -type f)|sort -n|du-filter|tail
 101.32Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/zshbuiltins.1
 106.41Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/perlfunc.1perl.gz
 113.93Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/zshcontrib.1
 135.92Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/zshmodules.1
 175.37Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.gz
 175.37Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz
 199.21Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/perltoc.1perl.gz
 209.42Kb    /usr/share/man/man1/zshcompsys.1
 795.37Kb    /usr/share/man/whatis
  25.42Mb    total

Last edited by kazuo (2008-12-03 15:13:32)

Dieter@be

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

bash

+1

You people should just paste the output of wc -l.

bash is 4892.
mplayer is 8086.

The question is what the longest man page is that you (I) have seen.
Not: which manpage do you think is the biggest.

(that said, I've actually opened man mplayer a few times, didn't know it was that big )

Last edited by Dieter@be (2008-12-04 10:23:17)

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LTSmash

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

bash

+1

+1 too

At least it's the biggest I've readed carefully while looking for something...

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jcolinzheng

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

+1 Mplayer.
Much as I respect programs like mplayer and bash, lengthy manpages are a shame.

pauldonnelly

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Re: Longest man page you've seen?

+1 Mplayer.
Much as I respect programs like mplayer and bash, lengthy manpages are a shame.

You think so? I'd rather have complete docs.