Search in man pages
 

Hello! The question is about searching in linux man pages. Identifier could be found in current man page by "/" command. Is it possible to jump between found occurrences?

Hi,

Jumps as in forward and backward between 2 found entries?

If so, not to my knowledge. Disregard, it is possible....

"man less" - it is typically the pager for man.

Yea, i mean jumping between found entries forward and backward, cuz it's quite annoying to scroll long page and look for entries.

I know what you mean - read and learn.

Thx, syg00. I'm reading right now. That was the answer for druuna

In case it helps any, something I did not do for the longest time but have since learned to do, is on long man pages (such as the Bash man page) to pay attention & try to remember to the line numbers whereabouts the information you often want on a given page, is located. You can see the line numbers in the bottom left corners of the man pages.

I know this doesn't help you 'jump' right to a section you want, but it sure is easier & faster to hold "PageDown" or whatever and zoom up/down quickly until you are at the lines you want, than to keep keying up/down a page at a time trying to get to where it was.

Sasha

PS - Ehh, not sure if I understand the question correctly now, having read the new reply above :scratch: -- but if we haven't got the point understood right, just rephrase the question -- we'll get it eventually :)

Thanks everyone for advices. After searching with "/pattern" command, clicking "n" allows to jump between found entries.

Try "?" as well ... ;)

Well I'll be! I didn't know that -- thanks for posting it :)

Sasha

You're welcome =)

The man viewer is very similar to the vi editor.

search forward: /pattern
search backward: ?pattern
next: n
previous: N

I just use this http://linux.die.net/man/, unless the 'net is unavailable.

Check out man's -T option.