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Open any man page (using "man") in Dash.app
function encodeuri {
local string="${@}"
local strlen=${#string}
local encoded=""
for (( pos = 0; pos < strlen; pos ++ )); do
c=${string:$pos:1}
case "$c" in
[-_.~a-zA-Z0-9]) o="${c}" ;;
*) printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c"
esac
encoded+="${o}"
done
echo "${encoded}"
}
function man {
if [[ -d /Applications/Dash.app && \
-d "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Dash/DocSets/Man_Pages" ]]; then
/usr/bin/open dash://manpages:`encodeuri ${@}`
else
/usr/bin/man ${@}
fi
}
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This no longer works in macOS Sequoia; see alternative here.

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