View a man page manually

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry  
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Sometimes a man page for a package does not exist in the MANPATH and cannot be seen by the man program. Using nroff to format the text the way that man does is an option to altering your MANPATH variable.


To view a man page file called recipe.1 in the current directory, use:

nroff -man recipe.1 | more

 

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