Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> 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.
I can't say I know the full rules used by the man command,
but the title and the name fields are indexed by mandb and
then used when you pass a page to the man command.
You can use the --debug (-d) option to man to get a lot more
detail about how it finds a page, usually combined with the
--where (-w) option to simply show the location of the man
page source.
Something like:
man -d -w 5 storage.conf |& less
--
Todd
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