Add possiblity to support specifying desired section of manpage
Harald van Dijk
harald at gigawatt.nl
Tue Dec 22 16:15:37 UTC 2020
On 22/12/2020 15:42, Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote:
> Hi Depsterr,
>
>> Usage: man [-aw] MANPAGE[.SECTION]...
>
> That does not seem to be compatible with the standard man:
>
> man [OPTION...] [SECTION] PAGE...
It is not so much incompatible as it is incomplete. The widely used
man-db implementation of man does support this form as well. It supports
three forms of specifying the section, which all do the same thing:
man 7 man
man man.7
man 'man(7)'
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
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