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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

which manpage am I looking at?

Q. which manpage am I looking at?
A.

man -w keyword

gives the filename of the manpage that would be displayed when

man keyword

is entered at the commandline.

To get a list of all plausible manpages use

man -aw keyword

The -w option works for info also.

Q. which info page am I using?
A.

info -w keyword

gives the path of the info file that would have been displayed if the command "info keyword" is used.

Ref :- The manpages of man, info!

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