Re: how aliases for man pages are supported? [OT?]

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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?

AFAIK, man finds 'storage.conf' because it is the title of
the man page.  So it's not actually an alias.

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz | head -n1
.TH "storage.conf" "5" " Container Storage Configuration File" "Dan Walsh" "May 2017" 

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Todd

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