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praveenvikram24r · Joined: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:45 am Posts: 10

hi,

is there any alternative command for man pages to view the commands details please help me

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lok1950 · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:45 am Post subject:

There is an other way of viewing man and info pages but it needs the KDE desktop environment just use the KDE info center apart from that you a limited to the terminal and the bash command line.

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MartyBartfast · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:32 am Post subject:

There's also info, which is often more readable than the equivalent man page, just type info at the bash prompt and have a read.
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towy71 · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:09 am Post subject:

http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/
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shaddack · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:28 am Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:55 am Post subject:

Apart from man and info pages, some packages install HTML documentation and you'll often find more detailed tutorials on their web site wikis. There's also command --help of course.
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catgate · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:31 am Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:33 am Post subject:

For more je ne sais quoi, try http://manpagesfr.free.fr/
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catgate · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:00 pm Post subject:

ajgreeny · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:27 pm Post subject:

If you're using gnome, and I assume also in unity etc etc, you can open gnome help (yelp) and type man:command in the box, (note the colon, not space) which will open up the man page in a more easily readable format, just like a text file, and you can also search it more easily than the /searchterm of man pages.
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