On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis?
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In this case, the OP was simply using head as an example to
show how piping the output of man was generating an unexpected
error. As you all know, Unix is rich in
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error.
$ man gcc | head
GCC(1)GNU
GCC(1)
NAME
gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler
SYNOPSIS
gcc [-c|-S|-E]
Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04:
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error.
$ man gcc | head
GCC(1)GNU
GCC(1)
NAME
gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis?
Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just
use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants:
$ MANPAGER=head man gcc
GCC(1)
Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04:
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis?
Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could
just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants:
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