Comments on: Things To Remember http://blog.zelut.org/2008/05/27/things-to-remember/ Brain Dump of a Linux Admin Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:51:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: nixternal http://blog.zelut.org/2008/05/27/things-to-remember/comment-page-1/#comment-11 nixternal Tue, 27 May 2008 21:34:38 +0000 http://blog.zelut.org/?p=6#comment-11 Just take a look at another man page in a different package. Groff is what is used for manpages. Some other apps I know people like are txt2man, help2man, ManEdit, or even docbook. The nice thing about help2man is that is will take what you would normally get from running 'command --help' and manpage format it. This makes your job easier by taking a lot of the manual typing or copy and pasting away. Just take a look at another man page in a different package. Groff is what is used for manpages. Some other apps I know people like are txt2man, help2man, ManEdit, or even docbook.

The nice thing about help2man is that is will take what you would normally get from running ‘command –help’ and manpage format it. This makes your job easier by taking a lot of the manual typing or copy and pasting away.

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