I always understood that “man” ran a script which basically ran “nroff -man”
> On 26 Mar 2019, at 18:03, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> AFAIK, man finds 'storage.conf' because it is the title of
>>> the man page. So it's not
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> AFAIK, man finds 'storage.conf' because it is the title of
>> the man page. So it's not actually an alias.
>>
>> $ zcat /usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz | head -n1
>> .TH "storage.conf" "5" " Container Storage
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:57:52 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
> how does one establish an alias for an existing man page if it's not
> done in the "obvious" way? as an example, currently on my system,
> under /usr/share/man/man5, i have these two entries:
>
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > however, i recently installed the package "containers-common", which
> > installed (among other things) the single man page file under
> > /usr/share/man/man5:
> >
> > /usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz
> >
>
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> however, i recently installed the package "containers-common", which
> installed (among other things) the single man page file under
> /usr/share/man/man5:
>
> /usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz
>
> with that installed, both of the following commands
while this is happening on my fedora 30 branched system, i'm fairly
sure the question corresponds to a regular system with man pages.
how does one establish an alias for an existing man page if it's not
done in the "obvious" way? as an example, currently on my system,
under
