Geek Posted January 2, 2012 Posted January 2, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/open-man-page-terminal.jpg" alt="open a man page from the Terminal in OS X " title="open-man-page-terminal" width="620" height="226" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25514" /></p> <p>Mac OS X Lion’s <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">Terminal</a> includes a new feature that lets you quickly access new manual pages from any existing Terminal window. <strong>Right-click on a command or process name and select “Open man Page”</strong> from the contextual menu, this will create a new terminal window with the manual page of that command, outfitted in the lovely yellow man page theme. </p> <p>Because this is built into Terminal.app, the contextual menu exists when using a localhost terminal or when connected to remote servers, regardless of the host operating system. Because Mac OS X shares much of it’s underlying architecture with other flavors of UNIX, OS X will usually be able to find and launch relevant man pages even when connecting to another operating system. </p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/open-man-page-from-terminal.jpg" alt="Open a man page from the Terminal in OS X Lion" title="open-man-page-from-terminal" width="620" height="279" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25515" /></p> <p>Remember that man pages can also be read on the go by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/27/open-any-man-page-in-preview-and-save-as-pdf/">saving them as a PDF</a> and opening them with iBooks app on the iPad or iPhone.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DgfY-bE8Dsn4VH_FKoH9mkeb6nc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DgfY-bE8Dsn4VH_FKoH9mkeb6nc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DgfY-bE8Dsn4VH_FKoH9mkeb6nc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DgfY-bE8Dsn4VH_FKoH9mkeb6nc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BbmHYUYUL5o:Zl0PbKAntUQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/BbmHYUYUL5o" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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