#manpages — Public Fediverse posts
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Hello everyone, I made some updates to ManpageViewer, fixed some bugs, implemented interface improvements, now it's easier to read the manpages, and the search system has also been improved. As you can see, I also adopted another name. I also expanded the scope, with the creation of "Custom Manpages," I can add the manpages of a specific software.
#man #manpages #FreeBSD #MINIX #NetBSD #OpenBSD #UNIX #pkgsrc #DataBase
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lolcat tricks and fun
In case you have ever wondered what it would look like to have all of your favourite console output piped through lolcat(6) 🏳️🌈, here is a nice example
required (one of *sh is enough)
- Open Source OS
- sh
- csh
- ksh
- zsh
- bash
- fish
- syntax skills on piping I/O
- love of colours
- typing skills
- sense of humour
typing
man lolcat...will get you the standard sh output delimited by the man command itself. This means that I used a simple trick to get all of my output piped through lolcat
ssh -Xv -p65534 -l userid |lolcatThis command syntax gets all of my commands in that ssh session piped through lolcat, creating an awsome rainbow colour galore
notes
- ssh secure session piped through lolcat gets you a slower output, compliments of the inner workings of lolcat. Feel free to optimize the program and release the patches if the lowerspeed irks you.
- test the speed by doing
ls -lR ~and compare that in a standard ssh sessios without full lolcat pipe- I used the -X switch because I also start X programs from this shell (which I run in Xorg {it also works in wayland})
- I use the -v switch because I love log messages of ssh
- you can also animate your piped lolcat output with
lolcat -a- I watch the output on a large TV also, because lolcat(6) 🏳️🌈 is that awsome
sources:
lolcat --helpman lolcat(6) 🏳️🌈
https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
man man(1)
#programming #rainbow #sh #csh #ksh #zsh #bash #fish #lolcat #man #manpages #OpenSource #Linux #BSD #POSIX #TV
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🤣 Oh, joy! Yet another groundbreaking revelation: people like *examples* in man pages. Who could have guessed? 🚀 Thank goodness someone finally added the most *basic* #examples to #tcpdump and #dig... because, you know, reading is hard. 📚🔍
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/ #manpages #programming #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🤣 Oh, joy! Yet another groundbreaking revelation: people like *examples* in man pages. Who could have guessed? 🚀 Thank goodness someone finally added the most *basic* #examples to #tcpdump and #dig... because, you know, reading is hard. 📚🔍
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/ #manpages #programming #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🤣 Oh, joy! Yet another groundbreaking revelation: people like *examples* in man pages. Who could have guessed? 🚀 Thank goodness someone finally added the most *basic* #examples to #tcpdump and #dig... because, you know, reading is hard. 📚🔍
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/ #manpages #programming #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🤣 Oh, joy! Yet another groundbreaking revelation: people like *examples* in man pages. Who could have guessed? 🚀 Thank goodness someone finally added the most *basic* #examples to #tcpdump and #dig... because, you know, reading is hard. 📚🔍
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/ #manpages #programming #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/
#HackerNews #tcpdump #dig #manpages #networking #examples #techblog
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Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/
#HackerNews #tcpdump #dig #manpages #networking #examples #techblog
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Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/
#HackerNews #tcpdump #dig #manpages #networking #examples #techblog
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Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/
#HackerNews #tcpdump #dig #manpages #networking #examples #techblog
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Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/
#HackerNews #tcpdump #dig #manpages #networking #examples #techblog
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Seems command-line interface tools #cli with good #manpages / help info are very powerful because automatic coding tools can easily interface with them & use them correctly, even without additional context. Interestingly, many machine-based coding assistants are extremely good at generating command-line oriented programs in the first place. Until now, I struggled to build solid GUIs, for example with #ratatui. Keeping software using the CLI - as well - seems to provide big automation advantages.
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💯!
“Notes On Clarifying Man Pages”, Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065972
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/zpifkh/notes_on_clarifying_man_pages
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<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#style> mentions the one-sentence-per-line rule for manual pages, however:
a) there's no such rule in mdoc(7) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-current> or style.mdoc(5) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style.mdoc&sektion=5&manpath=freebsd-current>; and
b) I frequently see multiple lines for a single sentence – is this simply because authors and reviewers happily ignore a rule?
A random pick, from a very recently changed page:
– the longest line is 78 characters.
FreeBSD style aside, Debian man-pages(7) suggests a source code line length of no more than about 75 characters wherever possible: <https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/manpages/man-pages.7.en.html#Conventions_for_source_file_layout>.
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Käyttääköhän kekään enää #Texinfo'a? Siis ainakaan alkuperäiseen tarkoitukseensa #man-sivuja laajempana järjestelmän ohjeistuksena? Enää #Debian'kaan ei tunnu asentavan infoa oletuksena, vaikka nimenomaan #GNU'n ohjelmissa joskus man-sivu on tynkä ja varsinainen tieto info-sivulla. #floss #linux #unix #manpages #infopages
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@zer0unplanned This post looks very useful. I made a similar tool (still in beta with errors) to grab screenshots and raw data of manual pages #manpages for #linux commands, in this case #ssh info, and to present the different layers that are the OS, app and nixos settings. The program ssh-key-manager is in my flake https://repoducible.org ( features/security/packages #flake #part can be pulled out into another flake) & bit of a monster. Yours looks ultra compact #nixos
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What are people using these days to write #ManPages? I've been using #pod2man for years, because pod is easy to write, and pod2man has come with every version of #perl since the stone age and so is installed everywhere that matters. I can't help feeling a bit dirty though, writing pod to document code written in #C or #Rust.
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Warum die Kommandozeile dein wichtigstes Linux‑Werkzeug ist
Warum du die Werkzeugkasten‑Philosophie kennen solltest Wenn du als Administrator ernsthaft mit Linux arbeiten willst, kommst du an der Kommandozeile nicht vorbei. Anders als grafische Oberflächen, die dir meistens große, monolithische Programmpakete an die Hand geben, setzt die Kommandozeile auf viele kleine Werkzeuge, die du frei kombinieren kannst, um maßgeschneiderte Lösungen für deine Aufgaben zu bauen. Gerade im Server‑Umfeld, bei Automatisierung, Skripting und Fehlersuche […]https://andreas-moor.de/warum-die-kommandozeile-dein-wichtigstes-linux-werkzeug-ist/
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<https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/718447> that's unexpectedly useful, the -R,
--repo-conf-dir
I never imagined that as an effective override, to enable something, partly because (if I'm not mistaken) --repository is still broken in <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2197>.
Also partly because online views of manual pages are made difficult to read by justified monospace. <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports#SYNOPSIS>, for example.
Ragged right would be much more reader-friendly.
(Maybe dyslexia makes me oversensitive to things such as poorly presented texts …)
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Hello everyone, I installed the pkgsrc on my Fedora. I very liked pkgsrc, so I decided to publish the man pages, that users of systems where pkgsrc is not installed, such as Linux, can have access to his man pages. Enjoy! 🤗
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Hello everyone, announcing some changes to ManpageViewer. In this version, some bug fixed and added the Digital UNIX 4.0e man pages.
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4.4BSD man pages added.
https://man.nergahak.co.za/?browse=1&source=44bsd -
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Nr 4. der #Artikelserie:
#SteadyCommunityContentNach dem Einbau des #Raspberry Pi 4 in das mysteriöse #Gehäuse kommt jetzt die #Inbetriebnahme. 😁
Mit #Linux arbeite ich zwar selten, doch grundsätzlich komme ich damit klar. Wo früher noch mühsam gegoogelt oder #Manpages konsultiert wurden, frage ich heute #ChatGPT. Das geht für eine Root-Cause-Analyse bestimmt 100-mal schneller. Also, womit fange ich an? 🤔
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Nr 4. der #Artikelserie:
#SteadyCommunityContentNach dem Einbau des #Raspberry Pi 4 in das mysteriöse #Gehäuse kommt jetzt die #Inbetriebnahme. 😁
Mit #Linux arbeite ich zwar selten, doch grundsätzlich komme ich damit klar. Wo früher noch mühsam gegoogelt oder #Manpages konsultiert wurden, frage ich heute #ChatGPT. Das geht für eine Root-Cause-Analyse bestimmt 100-mal schneller. Also, womit fange ich an? 🤔
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Nr 4. der #Artikelserie:
#SteadyCommunityContentNach dem Einbau des #Raspberry Pi 4 in das mysteriöse #Gehäuse kommt jetzt die #Inbetriebnahme. 😁
Mit #Linux arbeite ich zwar selten, doch grundsätzlich komme ich damit klar. Wo früher noch mühsam gegoogelt oder #Manpages konsultiert wurden, frage ich heute #ChatGPT. Das geht für eine Root-Cause-Analyse bestimmt 100-mal schneller. Also, womit fange ich an? 🤔
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Nr 4. der #Artikelserie:
#SteadyCommunityContentNach dem Einbau des #Raspberry Pi 4 in das mysteriöse #Gehäuse kommt jetzt die #Inbetriebnahme. 😁
Mit #Linux arbeite ich zwar selten, doch grundsätzlich komme ich damit klar. Wo früher noch mühsam gegoogelt oder #Manpages konsultiert wurden, frage ich heute #ChatGPT. Das geht für eine Root-Cause-Analyse bestimmt 100-mal schneller. Also, womit fange ich an? 🤔
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Nach dem Einbau des #Raspberry Pi 4 in das mysteriöse #Gehäuse kommt jetzt die #Inbetriebnahme. 😁
Mit #Linux arbeite ich zwar selten, doch grundsätzlich komme ich damit klar. Wo früher noch mühsam gegoogelt oder #Manpages konsultiert wurden, frage ich heute einfach #ChatGPT. Das geht für eine Root-Cause-Analyse bestimmt 100-mal schneller. Also, womit fange ich an? 🤔
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🚀🎉 Ah yes, the pinnacle of modern computing: a man page that can't even load without #javascript and #cookies. Because clearly, reading documentation should feel like a trip to a sketchy website 🍪🤖. If only our forebears of UNIX could see us now, reveling in the endless potential of... waiting for a second-rate web page to load. Truly, progress at its finest. 💾🙌
https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune #moderncomputing #manpages #unixlegacy #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
New laws adopted by some #USMetropolis and blindly followed by the #EU, decrees that 'man' pages must be renamed to 'unk' pages.
'unk' = unknown
#identityPolitics #identityLeft #unknown #manPages #genderPolitics #identitarianism #supremeCourt #asTheWorldBurns #thisIsFine #bitcoinWar #skit
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Ok, I'm pretty sure cawf 4.10 is the last version of cawf. It's from 1996. The minix version I was playing with earlier is either 4.8 or 4.9.
(groff released in '97, pretty much made cawf pointless)
It was an easy port to RISC OS. I have a little bit of packaging to do yet but it's basically done.
Unfortunately it still can't deal with mandoc or mdoc manpages.
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I am using #Archlinux and want to replace my current #keyboardlayout with the #workman layout.
The #archwiki and #manpages are incredible - but I find myself unable to grasp which steps exactly I have to do, to accomplish what I aim to achieve.
Can some friendly person help me out, or give me a hint on what needs to be done?
