How do I read a .man file that’s not on my manpath? I know I had a command for this, but now I don’t remember, and I can’t find the right switch in the man pages for man.
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How do I read a .man file that’s not on my manpath? I know I had a command for this, but now I don’t remember, and I can’t find the right switch in the man pages for man.
You can try to read your file by doing
as man will treat the given argument as a file if it finds a slash
/in it.For instance
will open the
my_testfile, whilewill look in the standard manual for the given command.