Jan 9, 2011 · Instead of typing man ls for the CLI man page you can type yelp man:ls and view in GUI window: Once loaded you can use Control + F to search. Browser. I open the man page …

Aug 25, 2015 · While you can pipe man's output just fine, know that you can search within man as well. man uses less as the pager by default, and within less, you can: press / and enter the …

Jan 31, 2016 · From man man:-K, --global-apropos Search for text in all manual pages. This is a brute-force search, and is likely to take some time; if you can, you should specify a section to …

man bash and searching for change will get you close to bash's built-in cd command's description. (keep searching! It's in there!) apropos gets it's information from a database built each night …

dns-search determines which domain is appended for dns lookups. Normally you will specify here the same domain as returned by hostname -f. For detailed information see the following quote …

Mar 26, 2012 · You can search for simple search strings (e.g. man -K "example text"), or use the --regex option to use regular expressions in your search. It will give you the first matching …

Jan 21, 2019 · The man pages can be viewed by. man apt. and . man apt-get. In this specific case, sudo apt install <program-name> asks you if you really want to install before it proceeds. …

Dec 12, 2011 · For details, see man bash. Yes it is a long page, but bash is a somewhat complex program, and if you want just search that page for "case-insensitive" to go to the relevant …

May 20, 2014 · Just my 2¢: If you type man man (i.e. looking up the manpage for man) you get: * man (1) man (7mp) man (1p) Man: What manual page do you want? Man: This shows you …

Man pages are the UNIX traditional way of distributing documentation about programs. The term "man page" itself is short for "manual page", as they correspond to the pages of the printed …