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RE: man redirect error
Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error.
>>
>> $ man gcc | head
>> GCC(1) GNU
>> GCC(1)
>>
>>
>>
>> NAME
>> gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler
>> SYNOPSIS
>> gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard]
>> [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel]
>> Error executing formatting or display command.
>> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/gunzip
>> -c '/usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c
>> -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 36096.
>> No manual entry for gcc
>> $
>
>
> probably not. Why are you wanting to head the output? Man already
> displays using a pager.
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