Steven wrote:
> For example, I have /usr/bin/ls and /usr/gnu/bin/ls. How can I tell which one
> "man page ls" gives me information for?
% man -M /usr/share/man ls
Reformatting page. Please Wait... done
User Commands ls(1)
NAME
ls - list contents of directory
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/ls [-aabccdeeffghhikllmnopqrrsstuuwv...@]
[...]
Note the path shown in the synopsis (for many, but unfortunately not all,
Sun created man pages).
On the other side:
% man -M /usr/gnu/share/man ls
[...]
AUTHOR
Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report ls bugs to bug-coreutils at gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software:
<http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright O 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistri-
bute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
law.
[...]
__________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|____________________|____________________|
| Availability | SUNWgnu-coreutils |
|____________________|____________________|
| Interface Stability| Uncommitted |
|____________________|____________________|
NOTES
Source for GNU coreutils is available on
http://opensolaris.org.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
