man workflow for Alfred

A workflow for Alfred to rapidly open UNIX man pages in any of traditional Terminal, HTML or PDF format.

Releases

• v1.1 for Alfred 2.4+
• v2.x for Alfred 3.1+
• v3.x for Alfred 5.0+

Requirements

• Alfred (version 3.0+)
• The Alfred Powerpack.
• Python 3 (xcode-select --install or Homebrew)

Usage

Type man in Alfred, optionally followed by the section to which you wish to restrict search, followed by a glob pattern to match against man page names.

Action modifiers:

• Shift+Enter: open locally rendered HTML man page in default browser.
• Command+Enter: open PDF man page in default PDF viewer.

Contributions & Thanks

• Sebastian