Please check hints before (and after) posting.

For this line to work one has to replace "$" with "$".

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'For this line to work one has to replace "$" with "$".'

Wait... what?

I could say something snarky like "Please check comments before (and after) posting", but I don't want to... ah, what the heck, I already wrote it. ;-b

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Just in case it's not obvious, I'm guessing he meant that the $ in the hint should be replaced by $, but presumably the &code got auto-converted by the forum in the comment, but not in the hint.

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Sorry, exactly as the above poster said ;-)

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The command does seem to be incorrect. If you copy/paste it into a Terminal window, you get a continuation prompt:

$ function man { if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1 ; elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1/$2 ; fi }
>

Not sure what replacing a $ with a $ does, bit something is not quite right.

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I'm using the following:

function manp() { man -t "$1" | open -f -a Preview }

"man" itself is untouched, but if I type

manp foo

, it opens the man page for foo in Preview, prettified as a PDF. It can be slow for long man pages, but it's handy.

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joestalin, what happens to the "prettified" man-page that Preview creates once you quit Preview? Is that "page" deleted or does it remain in a cache somewhere... and if so, where?

-- David Allie

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Why not just correct the hint?

function man { if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1 ; elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1/$2 ; fi }

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I added the following to my .bash_profile file:

# open man-pages in new tab
mant() {
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then open x-man-page://$1 ; elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1/$2 ; fi
}

and if I enter 'mant ditto' it opens the man-page for ditto in a new window. Works great.

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Anyone know how to do this in tcsh?

I'm no command line expert. I know a few things, but clearly not enough to get this working, since my efforts to adapt this for tcsh so far have failed.

I'd appreciate anyone else's successful effort! :)

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Seems a lot easier to just open a browser tab, and type 'man pg' in the search bar there to get the man page that you want.

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Even better IMHO

http://www.bruji.com/bwana/

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For me the best is ManOpen, a MacOS X GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages. Man pages can be opened by title, like command-line 'man' command, or using 'openman' command line tool, which is similar to 'man' command except it will display the man pages in ManOpen.app instead of directly to the terminal.

http://www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html

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Go to System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts and then search for the Text section under Services. Therein, you'll find "Open man Page in Terminal", which by default is set to Cmd-Shift-M, though disabled. Enable it. Go back to Terminal, type a command, select it, then press Cmd-Shift-M. Voilą. Same as the context menu, but via the keyboard. Well, mostly.

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