I always understood that “man” ran a script which basically ran “nroff -man” > On 26 Mar 2019, at 18:03, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
