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How do I manually search in Linux?
Just hit / , and type your search pattern.
- Patterns can be regular expressions, for example, you could search for the word “option” by typing /[Oo]ption.
- To jump through the results, press N (forwards) and Shift + N (backwards).
- There is also a way to search across all manpages: man -K “Hello World”
How do you search manual pages for a particular string?
Search in Current Manual Page for Matches The three tricks to remember to search once you’re within a man page are: / search string – find matches to “search string” in current man page” n – go to next match. shift + n – go to prior match.
How to search for a flag in a man page?
The search starts at the first line displayed (but see the -a and -j options, which change this). So one could try and look for ‘-O$’ in a man-page to find a flag that lives alone in it’s own line. Although, it is common for a flag to be followed by text in the very same line, so this is not guaranteed to work.
How to search man pages at the command line?
For example, to find all manual pages that contain the string “eraseDisk” you’d use the syntax: Hitting return will immediately start searching all manual pages found in /usr/share/man/* and when a match is found reports back, offering the matching manual page to you which you can accept with ‘y’ or dismiss with ‘n’ (or quit with ‘q’)
Why do I need to look at the man page?
Referencing a man page can be essential when trying to learn proper syntax or how a command works, but with how large some manual pages are it can be a real drag to scroll through the entire man page to try and find a relevant portion. Additionally sometimes you just don’t know exactly which manual page you should look for relevant data for.
Where do you find man pages in Excel?
In the example above there are man pages called ‘mkdir’ in both sections (1) and (2v). If unspecified, man will give you the first manpage it finds. The -f option will show you all the available man pages for a given name.