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Find your longest man pages.
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| # Finds your longest man pages by counting `man n foo | wc -l` | |
| # for all man pages available. | |
| man -k . | | |
| sed -e 's/(//' -e 's/)//' | | |
| awk '{ print $2, $1 }' | | |
| xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "echo -n -e "{}"'\t'; man "{}" | wc -l" 2>/dev/null | | |
| awk -F$'\t' 'BEGIN { max = 0 } { if ($2 > max) { max = $2; print "max found: " max " (" $1 ")" } }' |
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