Man-Page Summary (man-summary)

Outputs a man page summary of a command

Description

man-summary reads the man pages for a given command(s) and outputs it’s summary (if one exists).

Usage

man-summary command [ commands ] -> <stdout>

Examples

» man-summary man 
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals

Detail

man-summary can take multiple parameters and will return the summary for each command. If any commands have no summaries, then the exit number will be incremented. In the example below, two parameters had no associated man page:

» man-summary aa ab ac ad ae
aa - Manipulate Apple Archives
ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
ac - connect time accounting
ad - no man page exists
ae - no man page exists

» exitnum
2

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