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Searching for a specific option in a man page

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Mar 15, 20264488 views
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I often find myself 'ing a command just to learn about one specific option. Most of the time I can search to the option just fine, unless it's something like or where I have to step through about 40 matches until I get to the actual description of the option... Sometimes I can get lucky and search …

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Fix for: Searching for a specific option in a man page

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Here's my script to do it. It's called he. But if you don't have access to a script like that, just run , then type (note the space), for example, in the man page, type Enter to find the documentation for the option. This works because the option us…

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