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hi,
i don't know if it is possible, but is there anyway to see man pages like a book, without specifying any command? For example, i known that man pages are divided in various section, how i can see commands of certain section.
I'm not sure if this helps, but searching through a man page you can do easily by using a / and then what you're searching for, then n to go to the next match and N to go the previous ...
I thought maybe you didn't mean the different man pages, like 1, 2, 7, but I wasn't sure.
what i want is like in this website http://linux.die.net/man/, you can see which commands belongs to section 1, section 2, and so on. At the moment i don't have internet in linux, if i want to see man pages like this website i have to go to windows xp, it's not very practical. So my question is can i have this formatation with man pages?
What I mentioned already is what this is, man 1 is the first, man 2 the second, man 3 the third, etc. I don't know exactly what package(s) you have to download or have... man -a goes through them one by one, after you q the one you're looking at, you can press enter (that I know of) to go to the next.
If you want to browse documentation, you may want to use info instead of man. They are not the same though; depending on the exact command, one will be more detailed than the other (and some items do no appear in the info pages at all).
Personally, if the tool is GNU, I prefer reading the online (but downloadable) HTML documentation pages.
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