explainshell missing man pages

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Aug 30 '13 15:08 idank

If then else man page is missing

Aug 30 '13 16:08 surajchavan

apt-key wasn't parsed well: http://manned.org/apt-key/d6b5fc0e / source: http://manned.org/apt-key/56b239b8/src

Example: http://explainshell.com/explain/apt-key?args=adv+--recv-keys+--keyserver+keyserver.ubuntu.com+0xcbcb082a1bb943db

Great idea, though. Need to find ways to use/improve this and help co-workers with their command-fu.

Perhaps a workaround for apt-key and similar is to simply highlight in the man page where query tokens are found.

Aug 30 '13 19:08 LouisStAmour

update-rc.d man page is missing.

Nice going though, keep it up :+1:

Aug 30 '13 21:08 Antikythera

Here is one, for OpenVZ man pages (vzctl et al)

https://github.com/idank/explainshell-manpages/pull/1

Aug 31 '13 00:08 kolyshkin

BASH built-ins such as compgen, read, etc. are missing.

Use help compgen, help read, etc to view the "manpages"

Aug 31 '13 08:08 justbrowsing

apt-key wasn't parsed well

I fixed what I could in apt-key (it now recognizes adv), but looking more closely reveals that adv borrows some options from gpg, hence why some flags you pasted aren't in apt-key's man page. There's no way of making explainshell figure that out I'm afraid.

Aug 31 '13 14:08 idank

systemctl and systemd-analyze pages are missing

Aug 31 '13 18:08 apodda

Since ZFS is getting bigger and bigger - here are Oracle's man page for Solaris and FreeBSD one:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/819-2240/zfs-1m/index.html

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html

http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/zfs/

Sep 01 '13 07:09 stoyan100yanov

Hi,

would it be possible to add illumos man pages?

http://illumos.org/man/1/all http://illumos.org/man/1b/all http://illumos.org/man/1c/all http://illumos.org/man/1has/all http://illumos.org/man/1m/all http://illumos.org/man/1onbld/all

These one contains up-to-date ZFS manpage as well.

Sep 01 '13 21:09 xen0l

Support for the Java VM is missing - but I understand the difficulties in getting that working (different Java versions and possibly a lack of a manpage).

Sep 02 '13 04:09 vadi2

I think adding the pacman man page would be beneficial to some; although, I'm not sure if you are doing distro specific commands: https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html

Sep 02 '13 19:09 3ricG

a kvm virtual machine heavily rely on qemu-kvm parameters, in fact, everything depends on how the parameters passed to qemu-kvm binary and having this command in explainshell.com would be really really helpful.

-ePrasad

Sep 02 '13 20:09 eprasad123

Similar to vadi2, id also like to see java VM related man pages added.

I've found this: http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/java/

but as stated earlier the different versions/variants may be a burden.

In any case, Thanks!

Sep 03 '13 06:09 davidferril

First thing I tried was

openssl base64 -d -a -in ~/Desktop/test.b64 -out test

not a simple fix I suspect....

Sep 03 '13 17:09 furicle

Java manpage http://manned.org/java/eda7a6b6 https://github.com/openjdk-mirror/jdk7u-jdk/tree/master/src/linux/doc/man

Sep 06 '13 19:09 mariuszs

As a heavy kvm user, I agree with Prasad. Unfortunately, I managed to find only distribution-specific ones - and the most useful for us was from Ubuntu: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/kvm-qemu.1.html

An open bug, from RedHat's bugzilla shed some light: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907746

http://manned.org/qemu-x86_64/c0998bc2 http://manned.org/qemu.1 http://manned.org/qemu-img.1 http://man.cx/kvm-img%281%29

My best, Stoyan

Sep 07 '13 05:09 stoyan100yanov

Is it possible to set up "aliases", i.e. the name of the command and the man page are not the same? For instance the man page for perl is perlrun. I'd love to see that.

Sep 11 '13 09:09 biffen

Is it possible to set up "aliases", i.e. the name of the command and the man page are not the same? For instance the man page for perl is perlrun. I'd love to see that.

It's done automatically by looking at the man page (here), but looks like this one passed by. I added it manually.

Sep 11 '13 11:09 idank

Missing man page for ipfw: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8

Unable to locate this in nroff format, sorry.

Sep 16 '13 16:09 lukeasrodgers

Manpage for emerge (http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/emerge.1.html) the gentoo package manager is missing :)

Sep 17 '13 16:09 zaratan

Question: Do you plan to include commands outside the online Ubuntu manual such as 'brew'?

Sep 18 '13 01:09 rajnathani

nping is not recognised. http://nmap.org/nping/

Sep 18 '13 22:09 analogsignals

squid option -N is not recognised.

and I miss nagios command-line options much...

Sep 18 '13 22:09 washuu

ntfsck!

Sep 18 '13 23:09 heyakyra

ipconfig not recognised

Sep 19 '13 12:09 masterninja01

hello,

this is an excellent tool, thanks for it!

fyi the dns-sd is not currently supported. here's the man page: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dns-sd.1.html

Sep 19 '13 16:09 raytraced

What about an extremely useful 'sl' command? http://man.cx/sl%286%29

Sep 20 '13 17:09 tonyo

I tried usermod and wasn't added yet... linux.die.net/man/8/usermod

Sep 22 '13 18:09 giovanisp

keytool from Java would be very helpful http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/keytool.html

Sep 25 '13 13:09 pimlottc

Is there a non-OSX xattrs man?

Oct 08 '13 09:10 stoyan100yanov

A man page for the history command would be really helpful. Thank you! http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uhistory.htm

Oct 09 '13 14:10 kevinSuttle

http://www.ss64.com/bash/history.html

Oct 09 '13 16:10 stoyan100yanov

man page for ture, false

Oct 12 '13 22:10 silverwzw

update-manager -d

Oct 17 '13 09:10 febcrash

+1 for usermod http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/usermod.8.html

Oct 24 '13 10:10 dolzenko

source isn't in

Oct 26 '13 16:10 Tarang

Hi! I think journalctl is missing, too: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journalctl.html

Oct 27 '13 12:10 nimarb

killproc http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/it/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8&topic=killproc

Oct 31 '13 12:10 dwradcliffe

sl is missing, too: http://man.cx/sl(6)

Nov 09 '13 08:11 morphium86

No cowsay ! http://linux.die.net/man/1/cowsay

Nov 17 '13 09:11 adamchainz

setresuid is missing http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/setresuid.2.html

Nov 21 '13 08:11 kokichi88

getopts is missing http://www.unix.com/man-page/All/1/getopts/

Dec 02 '13 18:12 bobthecat

Shell colon operator is missing. For example, try:

:> file-that-will-be-blanked.txt

or forkbomb (be careful!):

:(){ :|:& };:

Dec 02 '13 20:12 bcarpenter

pacman is missing https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html

Dec 02 '13 22:12 cpuspellcaster

ruby gem it is a must for Ruby developer.

http://guides.rubygems.org/command-reference/

Dec 02 '13 22:12 dixia

Here's a better manpage for history, the other ones are weird.

http://linux.die.net/man/3/history

Dec 02 '13 22:12 XanderStrike

for x in $(ls); do echo $x; done yields No man page found for for.

possibly an issue with the use of $( ) eval?

Dec 02 '13 22:12 nonrational

!! is probably worth adding.

Dec 02 '13 23:12 wasmith

Hey, No man page found for netcat, I found the man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc

Dec 03 '13 06:12 octans

No man page for brew for OSX.

The page is here: https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md

Dec 03 '13 06:12 alexg0

No man page for awk. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?awk

Dec 03 '13 07:12 TheAshwanik

http://linux.die.net/man/8/yum

Dec 03 '13 11:12 Cysioland

for n in seq 0 10. It seems that backticks are not noticed.

Dec 03 '13 13:12 cmouse

OpenBSD pfctl (Packet Filter) http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfctl&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Dec 03 '13 15:12 vic3lord

Homebrew (OS X command line package manager): https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md?source=cc

Dec 03 '13 15:12 exchgr

As a few others have left complaints about for [I had one but deleted it after looking it over] you may want to make sure that this top-of-site disclaimer: (support for control flows (if/while/etc.) and command substitutions will be added later on) is also added to the error page. Thanks for writing the tool!

Dec 03 '13 18:12 echoe

'vmstat' is missing: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vmstat The explanation for 'sudo su' is very unclear. The explanations for 'touch' are lacking: it is frequently used to create empty files, or check that you have the correct permissions to them.

Dec 03 '13 21:12 Grogs

reaver man is missing https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/

Dec 03 '13 22:12 armujahid

mount_msdosfs http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sbin/mount_msdosfs/mount_msdosfs.8?revision=225736&view=co

Dec 03 '13 23:12 subtlepath

please add: mkfs.* command!

Dec 04 '13 02:12 simplyzhao

openssl: http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/openssl.html Including (but not limited to): http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/enc.html

Dec 04 '13 03:12 owenfi

Fork bomb:)

Dec 04 '13 04:12 adityamuraletharan

pushd  
popd

Dec 04 '13 07:12 tylerzika

security

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/security.1.html

Dec 04 '13 09:12 drewcrawford

java

Dec 04 '13 13:12 varemenos

RESULT=$?

newbalert!

Dec 04 '13 16:12 busticated

while http://ss64.com/bash/while.html

Dec 04 '13 17:12 lmprice

http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=for+%28%28+i+%3D+1%3B+i+%3C+5%3B+i%2B%2B+%29%29%3B+do

:)

Dec 04 '13 20:12 YannickFricke

declare

Dec 05 '13 09:12 roeych

hi，the "export" is missing

Dec 05 '13 10:12 showtimemmc

fyi the -p flag is missing. thanks!

Dec 05 '13 17:12 meowist

logcat is missing. I hope this counts a valid man page... https://developer.android.com/tools/help/logcat.html

Dec 06 '13 12:12 VolMi

ENV_VAR=whatever make start and other similar commands fail due to lacking man pages for ENV_VAR or whatever your process-specific env variable may be.

Could you denote these to be environment variables and not commands based on the presence of [text][equals operator][text] ?

Dec 07 '13 01:12 mateodelnorte

irb => http://linux.die.net/man/1/irb

Dec 09 '13 04:12 kracekumar

Hi guys,

Explain Shell is incredible! But it looks like some man pages are missing, specially on my concerns for OS X. Was looking for the purge command and didn't found the correct explanation.

Here man page to add: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/purge.8.html

Dec 09 '13 21:12 FredBlaison

Great tool! =D

And I would love to use it for salt: http://linux.die.net/man/1/salt http://linux.die.net/man/1/salt-call http://linux.die.net/man/1/salt-key http://linux.die.net/man/1/salt-cp http://linux.die.net/man/1/salt-cloud

Dec 10 '13 10:12 peterfroehlich

Dtrace: http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?dtrace+7

Dec 10 '13 16:12 robraux

nawk (new awk AT&T version) is missing:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/nawk

Dec 12 '13 07:12 aleemb

: is missing. e.g., : ${a:=1}

Dec 14 '13 23:12 MichaelCook

SVCS http://www.cims.nyu.edu/cgi-systems/man.cgi?section=1&topic=svcs SVCADM http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/svcadm-1m/ http://www.cims.nyu.edu/cgi-comment/man.cgi?section=1M&topic=svcadm

Dec 17 '13 10:12 dannybeeckman

LVM volumegroup tools:

vgchange http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/vgchange.8.html
vgcreate http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/vgcreate.8.html
vgextend http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/vgextend.8.html
etc...

Dec 18 '13 08:12 tofi86

chflags is missing. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chflags&sektion=1

Dec 18 '13 16:12 dsbecher

jekyll: http://www.justmanpage.com/man/jekyll.1

Dec 19 '13 14:12 padraic7a

shopt http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html (it's a builtin, so help shopt did the work)

Dec 24 '13 08:12 uda

attrib http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490868.aspx

Dec 25 '13 11:12 ankitstarski

NeroAAC http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=NeroAAC

Dec 26 '13 06:12 clvrobj

no man for uerdel

Dec 26 '13 14:12 minakolta

Just in case you want to add pev manpages as well (the one in Ubuntu manpages is outdated): https://github.com/merces/pev/tree/master/doc/manpages

Dec 27 '13 19:12 merces

Love the project.

Several argus-clients man pages aren't available or updated to the latest.

The man pages are within the source, the dev doesn't have accessible via revision control. http://qosient.com/argus/dev/argus-clients-latest.tar.gz http://qosient.com/argus/dev/argus-latest.tar.gz

I've would like to reference explainshell.com while adding to the nsmwiki (http://nsmwiki.org/Argus).

Jan 02 '14 19:01 mbrownnycnyc

a few of the Nagios actions https://www.nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/index.html

Jan 08 '14 21:01 kondor6c

The Mac OS X sips command line tool for image manipulation https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sips.1.html

Jan 09 '14 20:01 juandesant

+1 for Java's keytool command.

https://github.com/openjdk-mirror/jdk7u-jdk/blob/master/src/linux/doc/man/keytool.1

Jan 14 '14 19:01 avernet

openssl is missing

Jan 15 '14 02:01 dogancelik

eval http://www.softpanorama.org/Utilities/eval.shtml

Jan 15 '14 16:01 PengQiEric

Samba-tool is missing :http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/samba-tool.8.html

Jan 16 '14 10:01 Aguay-val

the wiringpi gpio software (on raspberry) is missing. I didn't find a good link but I took the file into /usr/local/share/man/man1/gpio.1 available at http://pics.helpcomputer.eu/gpio.1.txt

Jan 18 '14 23:01 lgnap

missing manpage for tvheadend http://manned.org/tvheadend/1b46c762/src

Jan 24 '14 14:01 Oberknecht

missing manpage for vmstat http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?vmstat

Jan 29 '14 04:01 Farsheed

tune2fs http://linux.die.net/man/8/tune2fs

Jan 29 '14 15:01 BenoitDuffez

fsck.ext3 http://linux.die.net/man/8/fsck.ext3

Jan 30 '14 20:01 pyrovski

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