eibrand.net » linux http://www.eibrand.net Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 man files in a browser http://www.eibrand.net/2007/10/23/man_files_in_a_browser/ http://www.eibrand.net/2007/10/23/man_files_in_a_browser/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:56:10 +0000 http://www.eibrand.net/blog/man_files_in_a_browser.php If reading man files off the command line is not your thing – or you might need to print it off, or you simply prefer to view things in a browser, then a handy command line option to man will open the man page you want to read in a browser of choice.

Say you want to open a man file on ls, then simply type:

$man ls --html=firefox

That will open the man file in firefox – nice and easy (and of course firefox can be replaced by browser of choice).

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