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Introduction

Mansect / Seealso is a script that helps to search and print sections of Unix manual pages. It can be used to locate documentation or to gain familiarity with the commands and functions available on a system.

Home page

http://cosoleto.free.fr/ral/seealso/

Installation

Please, first check man version. I guess recent systems will work with default. If man command needs of '-l' option to load manual page with full path specificated (e.g. 'man /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz'), then edit accordingly 'manexe' variable at the top of 'seealso' file.

You can look at 'Makefile' too, to change default install path (/usr/local/bin).

To install type

make

make install

For bash completion support, the 'seealso_completion' file must be installed in your $BASH_COMPLETION_DIR (e.g. /etc/bash_completion.d/).

Software tested with SuSE Linux 9.0, Cygwin 1.5.11.

Usage

command [OPTION] [SECTION] NAME [#sectname | ##subsectname]...

where 'command' can be any of:

        seealso
        returnvalue
        files
        conformingto
        synopsis
        environment
        
        mansect

Examples

seealso find seealso 1 printf 3 scanf seealso /usr/share/man/man1/*

returnvalue grep unzip printf

files wget synopsis strcat memcpy conformingto printf

seealso manexamples
seealso grepregular

seealso -l man | column

Author

Francesco Cosoleto, cosoleto@free.fr

http://cosoleto.free.fr