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'man' is a command for accessing documentation on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like systems.

man is a command for accessing documentation on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like systems. Manual pages are typically grouped into eight categories and provide information on commands, system calls, and other components of the operating system.

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Sometimes you are feeling down, you want to 'man up' -- how can I add this manual entry in unix?

Cris-Mac-Book-2:src cris$ man up No manual entry for up How can I remedy this situation? I want to add an 'invented' manual entry for a non-existant command up so I can type man up when required. Suggestions of stuff to include are welcome…
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Man command freezes computer for ~30 seconds

Every time I run man to access a manual page my entire computer freezes for about 30 seconds. My MANPATH is…
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What does the number quoted in parentheses mean in man page of some command?

In the Mac OS X Mavericks terminal, inside frisk man page, there is: SEE ALSO cfdisk(8), sfdisk(8), mkfs(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), kpartx(8) Does it mean see also the eighth cfdisk or something else? If so, how can I find all of cfdisk…
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How can I use man to lookup cocoa functions like FSEventsCopyUUIDForDevice in os x?

I can use man to look up tranditional posix APIs, but NOT when I try to look up os x APIs like FSEventsCopyUUIDForDevice etc. What am I missing?
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