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RE: man redirect error

From: Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
To: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
Cc: Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:12:57 +0000
Subject: RE: man redirect error
References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F203C949C7@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <1325687660.28537.1.camel@raker2.ateb.com> <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD3601FD162A@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com>
Reply-to: Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote:

> Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis?
> 
> Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants:
> 
> $ MANPAGER=head man gcc
> GCC(1)                                GNU                               GCC(1)
> 
> 
> 
> NAME
>        gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard]
>            [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel]
> 
> Hope this helps,
> --
> Bryan Thrall
> Principal Software Engineer
> FlightSafety International
> bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
> 
> 

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