Re: : making man(1) to open a file
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:59:49PM +0200, Frangois Chambaud wrote: Cezary Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dnia czwartek, 25 wrze6nia 2008, Bryan Irvine napisa3: Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less man -a is easier though. -B -a Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name combination. Normally, only the first manual page found is dis- played. You're sure that's the one? -- Cezary Morga A real administrator is always logged in as root - it's CRAP administrators that aren't! (BOFH @theregister.co.uk) If the PAGER variable is set to less, you can examine the next manual page with :n, the previous manual page with :p and the first manual page again with :x. Tested with man -a disklabel: /usr/share/man/cat8/disklabel.0 (file 1 of 3) (END) - Next: /usr/share/man/cat5/disklabel.0 /usr/share/man/cat5/disklabel.0 (file 2 of 3) (END) - Next: /usr/share/man/cat9/disklabel.0 /usr/share/man/cat9/disklabel.0 (file 3 of 3) (END) Another way is: $ man -f disklabel disklabel (5) - disk pack label disklabel (8) - read and write disk pack label disklabel, readdisklabel, writedisklabel, setdisklabel, bounds_check_with_label (9) - disk label management routines $ man 8 disklabel : : $ uname -srm OpenBSD 4.3 i386 -- Francois Chambaud http://www.chambaud.org -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : making man(1) to open a file
snip Another way is: $ man -f disklabel disklabel (5) - disk pack label disklabel (8) - read and write disk pack label disklabel, readdisklabel, writedisklabel, setdisklabel, bounds_check_with_label (9) - disk label management routines $ man 8 disklabel : The OP's question though was related to the fact that he had net-snmp installed which results in 2 man pages for snmpd in the same section: $ man -k snmpd snmpd (8) - Simple Network Management Protocol Daemon snmpd (8) - daemon to respond to SNMP request packets. Man's default behavior is to stop at the first page it finds in the path, which would be OpenBSD's snmpd. man -a (among various other posted methods) allows you to get access to the the rest of them. -B
Re: making man(1) to open a file
Dnia czwartek, 25 wrze6nia 2008, Bryan Irvine napisa3: Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less man -a is easier though. -B -a Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name combination. Normally, only the first manual page found is dis- played. You're sure that's the one? -- Cezary Morga A real administrator is always logged in as root - it's CRAP administrators that aren't! (BOFH @theregister.co.uk)
Re: making man(1) to open a file
On 2008-09-26, Cezary Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dnia czwartek, 25 wrze6nia 2008, Bryan Irvine napisa3: Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less man -a is easier though. -B -a Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name combination. Normally, only the first manual page found is dis- played. You're sure that's the one? Given the original problem, I'm in trouble opening net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages, that's quite appropriate and easy-to-use. Thanks Bryan :) As you see here, when asking on mailing lists, you'll get more useful answers if you give an explanation of what you want to do, rather than just think of one way to do it and ask how to do that.
Re: making man(1) to open a file
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Cezary Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dnia czwartek, 25 wrze6nia 2008, Bryan Irvine napisa3: Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less man -a is easier though. -B -a Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name combination. Normally, only the first manual page found is dis- played. You're sure that's the one? Yeah that's the one. Instead of halting at the first page it finds (the openbsd native) it then brings you to the next page found once you've scrolled through the first. -B
Re: making man(1) to open a file
Cezary Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dnia czwartek, 25 wrze6nia 2008, Bryan Irvine napisa3: Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less man -a is easier though. -B -a Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name combination. Normally, only the first manual page found is dis- played. You're sure that's the one? -- Cezary Morga A real administrator is always logged in as root - it's CRAP administrators that aren't! (BOFH @theregister.co.uk) If the PAGER variable is set to less, you can examine the next manual page with :n, the previous manual page with :p and the first manual page again with :x. Tested with man -a disklabel: /usr/share/man/cat8/disklabel.0 (file 1 of 3) (END) - Next: /usr/share/man/cat5/disklabel.0 /usr/share/man/cat5/disklabel.0 (file 2 of 3) (END) - Next: /usr/share/man/cat9/disklabel.0 /usr/share/man/cat9/disklabel.0 (file 3 of 3) (END) $ uname -srm OpenBSD 4.3 i386 -- Francois Chambaud http://www.chambaud.org
Re: making man(1) to open a file
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, L?VAI D?niel wrote: | Hi! | | I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) | | Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, | like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening | net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it | conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with | less, but it is less convenient :) | | Thanks for the help! Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less man -a is easier though. -B
making man(1) to open a file
Hi! I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with less, but it is less convenient :) Thanks for the help! Daniel -- LEVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1
Re: making man(1) to open a file
On 2008-09-21, LIVAI Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with less, but it is less convenient :) man -M /usr/local/man snmpd
Re: making man(1) to open a file
Hi! On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, LIVAI Daniel wrote: I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with less, but it is less convenient :) No, but in your case, you can use the option -M /usr/local/man (or -m /usr/local/man) probably. Kind regards, Hannah.
Re: making man(1) to open a file
On Sunday 21 September 2008 21.51.48 Hannah Schroeter wrote: No, but in your case, you can use the option -M /usr/local/man (or -m /usr/local/man) probably. On Sunday 21 September 2008 21.45.59 Stuart Henderson wrote: man -M /usr/local/man snmpd Argh, thanks, thanks! Sorry, I knew I read it too fast... Daniel -- LEVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1
Re: making man(1) to open a file
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, L?VAI D?niel wrote: | Hi! | | I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) | | Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, | like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening | net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it | conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with | less, but it is less convenient :) | | Thanks for the help! Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less to render the specific page. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
