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wpollock
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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages
Here's a handy shell script to show only the options from a command's man page:
showoptions() { man -s 1 "$*" |col -bx |awk '/^[ ]*-/,/^$/' |less }
(Won't work for every man page, but most of them where options start with a dash.)
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