On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 08:54:04AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 23Dec2014 18:20, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Going off on a tangent here, so I'm deliberately splitting a thread...
> >
> >On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 10:38 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >>Run the command:
> >> man 8 mount
> >>and see the types available for "-t" option.
> >>
> >>The "general" part of this advice is that: you're using the "mount"
> >>command, so read the "mount" manual entry!
> >>
> >>("mount" is an administrative command, so it is in section 8, not
> >>section 1.)
> >
> >I've never come to grips with multiple docs for man, depending on such
> >things as section numbers. And I see no difference in output between
> >"man 8 mount" or "man mount" Granted I haven't gone the whole way
> >through, but I've already gone deep into them, and not seen anything.
>
> Well, "man 2 mount" details the OS system call, very different in usage from
> the command line.
If you set the environment variable
export MANOPT="-a"
or simply use that option with the man command, you'll get all
available instances of 'man foo', one after the other.
I don't understand why that's not the Fedora default; it is on my
systems. I put it in /etc/profile.d/bash.sh along with some other
niceties that make Linux more friendly.
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not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
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