Comments on: Unix Tip: It’s a Man, Man

By: Dig Into Unix

Dig Into Unix — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:02:09 +0000

[...] man (manual): The online manual will describe most commands that you are interested in. For example typing man ls will give you the manual page about the ls command. [...]

By: J S Judd

J S Judd — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:09:01 +0000

I’ve known about man since my Unix days in the 80s, but I’m clearly missing something. Every time I type `man’ in my Mac terminal, I get a message like these:
“No manual entry for ls”
“No manual entry for man”

What is the magic trick to fill up the man entries?

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:46:50 +0000

There’s an application that will open manual pages in a separate window with excellent results. It’s called “ManOpen” and it can be called as a regular Mac GUI app AND a command-line tool. So you can have your manual pages open while slaving away in the terminal.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2734
http://www.clindberg.org

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:43:54 +0000

Grey Poupon a la Citroën. Or something like that. ;)

By: michel

michel — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:09:32 +0000

à propos bien sur :)

“apropos” means “about”

à propos de quelque chose.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:28:17 +0000

And if you're not sure what command you're looking for, use man -k searchterm where searchterm is the part of the command or command description you're searching for. This is the same as typing apropos searchterm, but a bit easier to remember, especially if you can't remember how to spell apropos. This is all in the man man page, but who reads that? :)