Tag: man

Create a man page

This little exercise is to create a man page.  The goal is to take a simple online man page that is in XML and copy into a text file.  Add a couple of markups here and there, test, and validate it. Create a manpage Additional examples and options are available on the author’s site, here.  I took that html page…

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Display Man pages in color

While learning about the creation of man pages, I came across something that I had not considered before, man page in color?  This can be done with a little installation of most. Using a CentOS 6 minimal install, most can be installed via yum. yum install -y most Add most to the environment. export PAGER="/usr/bin/most -s" Check out the man…

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