man¶

Display manual in swedish¶

man --locale=sv apropos

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

See The MAN page for the last command¶

man !!:0

Backup a file before editing it.¶

man emacs

Display a random man page¶

man $(ls /bin | sed -n $((RANDOM % $(ls /bin | wc -l) + 1))p)

Display a random man page¶

man $(ls -1 /usr/share/man/man?/ | shuf -n1 | cut -d. -f1)

Get some useful Information¶

man <COMMAND>

open man page of last used command¶

man !!

Display a random man page¶

man $(/bin/ls /bin | awk '{ cmd[i++] = $0 } END { srand(); print cmd[int(rand()*length(cmd))]; }')

Learn searching and navigating in man like a boss¶

man <command> then type h

A description of internet protocol¶

man inet

ettercap manual¶

man ettercap

bash man page¶

man bash | col -b

Save man pages to pdf¶

man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdf

Give to anyone a command to immediatly find a particular part of a man.¶

man <COMMAND> | less +'/pattern'

Play musical notes from octave of middle C¶

man beep | sed -e '1,/Note/d; /BUGS/,$d' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -IX sudo beep -f X -l 500

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Introduction to user commands¶

man intro

read manpage of a unix command as pdf in preview (Os X)¶

man -t UNIX_COMMAND | open -f -a preview

Print out a man page¶

man -t man | lp

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Search manpages for a keyword¶

man -k <keyword>

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

save man-page as pdf¶

man -t awk | ps2pdf - awk.pdf

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Show sections of a man page.¶

man ls | egrep "^([A-Z]|   [A-Z])"

What is the use of this switch ?¶

manswitch () { man $1 | less -p "^ +$2"; }

Convert "man page" to text file¶

man ls | col -b > ~/Desktop/man_ls.txt

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

open manpage and search for a string¶

man foobar | less +/searched_string

What is the use of this switch ?¶

manswitch() { man $1 | grep -A5 "^ *\-$2"; }

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Access to specific man page section¶

man 5 crontab

Display a random man page¶

man $(ls /bin | shuf | head -1)

Print all available rxvt resources and their comments¶

man -Pcat urxvt | \ # see description for full command

Convert man page to PDF¶

man -Tps ls >> ls_manpage.ps && ps2pdf ls_manpage.ps

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

print pdf man file¶

man -t ls > ls.ps && pdf2ps ls.ps && rm ls.ps

Create a pdf version of a manpage¶

man -t manpage | ps2pdf - filename.pdf

Create a pdf version of a manpage¶

man -t manpage | ps2pdf - filename.pdf

Display a random man page¶

man $(ls /bin | shuf -n1)

open manpage in browser¶

man -HBrowser manpage

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Render man page in temporary PDF (works in Gnome)¶

man -t man | ps2pdf - temp.pdf; evince temp.pdf &> /dev/null &; sleep 3; rm temp.pdf

Quick access to ASCII code of a key¶

man ascii

Go to man section of bash builtins¶

man () { if [[ $(type ${1}) =~ "is a shell builtin" ]]; then; /usr/bin/man -P "/usr/bin/less -iRs pattern=\"^ *${1}\"" bash; else; /usr/bin/man ${1}; return; fi; }

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

search manpages on the internets¶

manview() { lynx -dump -accept_all_cookies 'http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/adm/man.cgi?section=all&topic='"$1" | less; }

Print multiline text starting and ending at specific regexps with perl¶

man fetchmail | perl -ne 'undef $/; print $1 if m/^.*?(-k \| keep.*)-K \| nokeep.*$/smg'

save a manpage to plaintext file¶

man perlcheat | col -b > perlcheat.txt

save a manpage to plaintext file¶

man -P cat ls > man_ls.txt

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

See The MAN page for the last command¶

man !!:0

Save man pages to pdf¶

man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdf

Give to anyone a command to immediatly find a particular part of a man.¶

man <COMMAND> | less +'/pattern'

Play musical notes from octave of middle C¶

man beep | sed -e '1,/Note/d; /BUGS/,$d' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -IX sudo beep -f X -l 500

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Introduction to user commands¶

man intro

read manpage of a unix command as pdf in preview (Os X)¶

man -t UNIX_COMMAND | open -f -a preview

Print out a man page¶

man -t man | lp

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Show File System Hierarchy¶

man hier

Search manpages for a keyword¶

man -k <keyword>

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

save man-page as pdf¶

man -t awk | ps2pdf - awk.pdf

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Show sections of a man page.¶

man ls | egrep "^([A-Z]|   [A-Z])"

What is the use of this switch ?¶

manswitch () { man $1 | less -p "^ +$2"; }

Convert "man page" to text file¶

man ls | col -b > ~/Desktop/man_ls.txt

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

open manpage and search for a string¶

man foobar | less +/searched_string

What is the use of this switch ?¶

manswitch() { man $1 | grep -A5 "^ *\-$2"; }

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Access to specific man page section¶

man 5 crontab

Display a random man page¶

man $(ls /bin | shuf | head -1)

Print all available rxvt resources and their comments¶

man -Pcat urxvt | \ # see description for full command

Convert man page to PDF¶

man -Tps ls >> ls_manpage.ps && ps2pdf ls_manpage.ps

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

print pdf man file¶

man -t ls > ls.ps && pdf2ps ls.ps && rm ls.ps

Create a pdf version of a manpage¶

man -t manpage | ps2pdf - filename.pdf

Display a random man page¶

man $(ls /bin | shuf -n1)

open manpage in browser¶

man -HBrowser manpage

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii

Render man page in temporary PDF (works in Gnome)¶

man -t man | ps2pdf - temp.pdf; evince temp.pdf &> /dev/null &; sleep 3; rm temp.pdf

Quick access to ASCII code of a key¶

man ascii

Go to man section of bash builtins¶

man () { if [[ $(type ${1}) =~ "is a shell builtin" ]]; then; /usr/bin/man -P "/usr/bin/less -iRs pattern=\"^ *${1}\"" bash; else; /usr/bin/man ${1}; return; fi; }

Quick access to the ascii table.¶

man ascii