[OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

[Kevin J. Woolley]

Gah, ignore me -- I didn't see Calum's (much better) response.

Cheers,

kjw


On Saturday, 18 December, 2010 18:06, "Kevin J. Woolley" <kjw at javabunny.net> said:

> On Saturday, 18 December, 2010 17:04, "Harry Putnam" <reader at newsguy.com> said:
> 
>> What is the MANPATH to the solaris cmds that there are also gnu
>> versions of.
>>
>> /bin/ls  for example
>>
>> If I call man /bin/ls
>>
>> I get warnings about opening a binary file, and when the man page
>> opens there is lots of guff in it like escape sequences.
> 
> Don't supply paths to man on the command line.  You just asked it to process the
> /bin/ls executable file, and the warnings are 100% correct.
> 
> See if you have locate or slocate installed.  If not, do "pkg search locate" and
> find and install the appropriate package.  You will need to find and run
> "updatedb" as root to build its database if you just installed it now.  Once
> you've got that installed and the database built, do "locate ls.1" or "slocate
> ls.1".  That should give you a list of files with the string "ls.1" in them.  It
> should then be fairly easy to look at the list and see the files you're looking
> for.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> kjw
> 
> 
> 
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