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 /usr/share/man/man5, i have these two entries:
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4807 Feb 1 15:19 utmp.5.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 36 Feb 1 15:19 utmpx.5.gz
predictably, both of the following generate the same man page:
$ man 5 utmp
$ man 5 utmpx
because the smaller of the two files is simply a reference to the
other:
$ gunzip -c utmpx.5.gz
.so man5/utmp.5
$
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 work fine and
generate the same output:
$ man 5 containers-storage.conf
$ man 5 storage.conf
but i see no "shortcut" file in that directory to support the second
form, so i'm assuming there is some other mechanism by which this can
be done, i just don't know what it is. thoughts?
rday
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