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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:28:28+00:00

My Leopard has no manuals for Wget and compinit, for example. It lacks in

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My Leopard has no manuals for Wget and compinit, for example.
It lacks in many other areas such as in examples and documentation about options too.

Ubuntu has often better manuals than Mac: for instance, it has manuals for the two commands.

A solution to the problem may be to make a port to MacPorts which installs Ubuntu’s manuals to Mac. However, I am not sure whether it is the best solution or not.

Perhaps, a PATH which man uses could be simply changed, such that you keep a local copy of Ubuntu’s manuals in Mac. However, I am not sure how you can do that.

How can you expand Mac’s manuals to have at least Ubuntu’s manuals, such that I can use the following commnands

man wget
man compinit
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  1. Editorial Team

    Original Post:
    You might want to start by installing said programs on your Mac. The installation will probably include the man pages.

    Update to reflect discussion:
    MacPorts stores its man pages in /opt/local/share/man and adds these to the $MANPATH, apparently only for bash. Make sure it is also on your man path for zsh or whatever other shell you use.

    compinit seems to be documented in zshcompsys(1).

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