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How to get specific section inside a MAN page?

I want to get only specific sections of MAN page inside a shell (or perl) script and print it.

For eg: only the SYNOPSIS section of MAN page

Is there any standard way to do that?

Regards, Anandan

Solution

  • I haven't played with Linux/Unix in a long while, but perhaps you can perform a:

    man MANPAGE|a2ps -m > grep -A 1000 SYNOPSIS