random-man

Displays a random page from one of your installed programs
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Rich Harkins
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  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 4 KB

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random-man Description

Displays a random page from one of your installed programs random-man is a free and open source, tiny shell script that is useful for education of new (and old) users about the UNIX commands available to them through the shell. When executed, it chooses a random program in the user's PATH and displays the man page for it. random-man will silently ignore commands that do not have manual pages or other errors and will exit only when a man page can be generated.Instead of displaying the manual page, you can instead ask for only the summary line (that is, the command chosen plus the one-line description provided at the top of the man page). Add a "-s" flag to do so.You can also override the path searched by providing each segment of that path as an argument to random-man. This is handy for users that do a lot of sudo-ing that want to learn about commands they otherwise have overlooked. What's New in This Release: · Fixed dependency problem in .rpm. · Removed useless dependence on sed.


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