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man(1) wrapper that tries running a command with --help if no man page found
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| # If no man page found, try running the command with --help | |
| man () | |
| { | |
| if man -w "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 | |
| then | |
| command man "$@" | |
| elif which "$1" >/dev/null | |
| then | |
| echo "No man page found for $1, trying --help..." | |
| "$1" --help 2>&1 | less -S | |
| fi | |
| } |
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