Browse and Discover Manpages (programming.dev)

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How do you discover system builtins for C functions? The man pages for the C functions on Linux are great, but only if you know the name of the function. Is there a way to see a detailed table of contents, or to browse Manpages on a Linux distro?

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[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I wrote a little script to browse Manpages: woman using fzf to create such a browser. Just run woman without arguments to see the full list.

I think you would need to change the variable sections='1,8,6,5,7' , so it access only specific Manpages. In example 1 stands for executable programs or shell commands. More about the sections in the DESCRIPTION of the man command itself: man man

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