On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 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"
i saw that as the included title and actually thought, "could it
just be picking up the title in the page itself?" and i thought, "nah,
it must be something more elegant." so that's it? huh.
rday
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