Comments on: Remote man pages http://macsingularity.org/2007/01/16/remote-man-pages/ IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:15:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Marcos http://macsingularity.org/2007/01/16/remote-man-pages/#comment-1475 Marcos Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:12:46 +0000 http://macsingularity.org/2007/01/16/remote-man-pages/#comment-1475 <p>Well, assuming you successfully made the shell script "manb" and it is executable and in your path... then you will just type</p> <p>% manb host command</p> <p>and it should work... so for example</p> <pre><code>% manb computer.university.edu tcsh </code></pre> <p>and it would grab the man page on tcsh from computer.unevirsity.edu and show it in Textwrangler.</p> <p>You have to have Textwrangler installed and its command line tools as well.</p> Well, assuming you successfully made the shell script “manb” and it is executable and in your path… then you will just type

% manb host command

and it should work… so for example

% manb computer.university.edu tcsh

and it would grab the man page on tcsh from computer.unevirsity.edu and show it in Textwrangler.

You have to have Textwrangler installed and its command line tools as well.

]]> By: vanni http://macsingularity.org/2007/01/16/remote-man-pages/#comment-1474 vanni Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:43:23 +0000 http://macsingularity.org/2007/01/16/remote-man-pages/#comment-1474 <p>I am not able to do this as i need a better example. Can you post a real example leaving out host and passwd... thx</p> I am not able to do this as i need a better example. Can you post a real example leaving out host and passwd… thx

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