Man

The man page suite (man, apropos, and whatis) contains programs used to read most of the documentation on a GNU/ Linux system. The whatis and apropos programs are used to find documentation related to a particular subject.

Last updated 11 Jul, 2006


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Leadership
  • Federico Lucifredi - Maintainer
  • Richard Verhoeven - Contributor
  • John Eaton - Contributor
  • Zeyd M. Ben-Halim - Contributor
  • Federico Lucifredi - Contributor
  • Andries Brouwer - Contributor
Requirements
  • glimpse (Weak Prerequisite)
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Man2web, xmlmp

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man, apropos, whatis

Versions

1.6f

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