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Are there templates to link directly to the man page of a program, like say http://man.cx/ip%288%29 or http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip for — Preceding unsigned comment added by Semsi Paco Virchow (talk • contribs) 08:29, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Man is a self-explanatory thing here, and you can actually use man to figure out how to use man. I don't really think citations are needed unless you cite your console.
The original external link to the Folddoc man pages (that don't seem to be available)
The man
command is analogous to the help
command in the command shells of DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows.
I don't think this is correct. The help
command in DOS/Windows (and I expect OS/2, although I'm not personally familiar w/ it) only provides help for built-in commands - analogous to the help
command in most *nix shells. Documentation for 3rd-party commands is never available via the help
command in DOS/Windows. The man
command & man pages are more like a PDF viewer & PDF User Manuals included by some 3rd-party programs installed on DOS/Windows. To me, 'analogous' indicates stronger/more similarities between man
and help
than actually exist.Beolach (talk) 05:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Someone needs to link manual page to Unix manual, since manual page is what I call them in conversation, I can't be the only one that expands "man". 65.95.124.5 06:36, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I still don't see why the man pages are actually called "on-line manuals". Where those manuals only available online back in 1971?? Now they are delivered with every UNIX distribution, so why do they continue to call them "on-line" manual pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.126.42.203 (talk) 11:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Shouldn't they be called categories? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.169.238.182 (talk) 06:14, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe it's me, maybe I'm the only pedantic guy here, but I seem to be a lone editor when I attempt to place these in alpha order of title. Someone, anonymous IP based, keeps promoting their favourite much higher in the list and I keep putting it back. Since this is a single person moving things around I'm guessing we have a silent consensus, but it would be good to have another pedant police this, too. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 09:02, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The information in Navigation isn't really anything to do with man pages per se; it's a feature of the pager used to display man pages.
Presumably, those instructions are for less; this should be noted. Those with alternative pagers (for example, more, which is probably the default on non-GNU-influenced Unix systems) will not be able to use the navigation commands mentioned. -- pne (talk) 10:44, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
#!/usr/bin/env bash# usage example: ./mantopdf man# should :-) create man.pdf in /tmpman -t ${1} > /tmp/${1}.psgs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/${1}.pdf /tmp/${1}.psrm /tmp/${1}.ps
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.75.194 (talk) 18:42, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Compared to the help system in DEC VMS, the unix manpages are difficult to use and understand, mainly due to a lack of example command/function usage in the various subject matter. Examples tend to be quicker and easier to digest than pages of long verbose text on parameters and syntax.
But, it's hard to state in the article that manpages tend to lack examples, other than to cite extensively verbose manpages which lack any examples, I guess. :-) DMahalko (talk) 13:28, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps there should exist a page on the man system, rather than the man page (the content of which would be encompassed by the former)? i.e., analogous to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info_(Unix). Rnabioullin (talk) 23:00, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
To make the caption of the opening screenshot a bit more precise, I did a little research, and found the following:
man man
, this version is maintained today by the Debian project, but was first written in 1990. This means it predates Linux, the first version of which appeared in November 1991.Hairy Dude (talk) 13:21, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The man (currently http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) and man-db packages forked from a common code base in the mid-1990s. The original goal of man-db was, as indicated by the name, to add database caching to manual page searches. The increase in computer performance has considerably outpaced the growth of manual page collections, so some people now ask what the point is of using man-db rather than man.
man was written by John Eaton (jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu). He does not maintain man anymore - please do not bother him with remarks about the current version, which is rather different from the original one.
There is a very different man program, also derived from John Eaton's original version (by Graeme W. Wilford) distributed under the name man_db, with version numbers like man_db-2.3.10. Do not confuse the two, they are mutually incompatible, although they perform nearly the same job.
Guy Harris (talk) 20:28, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Die.net. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 27#Die.net until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 23:11, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I had added - commonly refereed to only as man page - never as man(ual) page. - Because someone unfamiliar with man pages used Wikipedia as a reference that it was a manual page. Yes, and is virtually always just called man page, as the title of each page. Went so far as using a link to a man page using man(ual) because they "didn't like" the shortened name.
So I just wanted to clarify their official source for all information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djk44883 (talk • contribs) 20:03, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The redirect Man Sudo has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 December 1 § Man Sudo until a consensus is reached. Widefox; talk 21:26, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]