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  • noun Plural form of manpage.

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Examples

  • Sure enough, a quick web search of some manpages turned up Lynx, which I could use to browse to the conversion page and log in.

    That Feeling of Flying Through The Night 2004

  • Relevant manpages can be located using "man - k????".

    Frequently Asked Questions About Linux v1.17 1993

  • He has a video that demonstrates adding a custom manpages. ubuntu.com to Chromium's search engines, such that you can type something like "man kvm" in your browser's URL bar, and go straight to the HTML rendering of the kvm manpage!

    Ubuntu Forums 2010

  • It uses sysfs and/sbin/hotplug and runs entirely in userspace. udev comes with a lot of documentation and full manpages included in the source tarball. udev is included in almost every 2.6 kernel based Linux distribution that is shipping, so please use the packages provided by your distro instead of trying to install from the source tree.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • Also contained here are documents installed as part of the core GNOME distribution, e.g. a copy of the GPL, the gnome-about program, some manpages and GNOME's core graphics files and icons.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • Our API matches the C API closely, see the RDoc for full API documentation and the Linux manpages for more details.

    RAA io_splice hackers 2010

  • It uses sysfs and/sbin/hotplug and runs entirely in userspace. udev comes with a lot of documentation and full manpages included in the source tarball. udev is included in almost every 2.6 kernel based Linux distribution that is shipping, so please use the packages provided by your distro instead of trying to install from the source tree.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • It uses sysfs and/sbin/hotplug and runs entirely in userspace. udev comes with a lot of documentation and full manpages included in the source tarball. udev is included in almost every 2.6 kernel based Linux distribution that is shipping, so please use the packages provided by your distro instead of trying to install from the source tree.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • It uses sysfs and/sbin/hotplug and runs entirely in userspace. udev comes with a lot of documentation and full manpages included in the source tarball. udev is included in almost every 2.6 kernel based Linux distribution that is shipping, so please use the packages provided by your distro instead of trying to install from the source tree.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • Also contained here are documents installed as part of the core GNOME distribution, e.g. a copy of the GPL, the gnome-about program, some manpages and GNOME's core graphics files and icons.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

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  • What's are manpages?!!

    April 16, 2010

  • You know Kenneth, in 30 Rock?

    He's not a manpage. It's short for "manual page." They're the built-in documentation on Unix computers. To see them you use the "man" command: "man awk" shows the manpage for the awk command, for instance.

    April 16, 2010

  • What's are happen with you grammar, frogapplause?!

    April 16, 2010

  • I dated a man awk once.

    April 17, 2010

  • I forgot to refer to my manpage when I composed that sentence!

    April 17, 2010