missing man pages

[idank]

To submit a missing man page please reply here with a link to it in raw format (nroff). Even better: I created a repo with all the source man pages I used here, clone it and send me a pull request.

[surajchavan]

If then else man page is missing

[LouisStAmour]

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.

[Antikythera]

update-rc.d man page is missing.

Nice going though, keep it up 👍

[kolyshkin]

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

• Add OpenVZ command line man pages explainshell-manpages#1

[justbrowsing]

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

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

[idank]

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.

[apodda]

systemctl and systemd-analyze pages are missing

[stoyan100yanov]

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/

[xen0l]

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.

[vadi2]

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).

[3ricG]

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

[eprasad123]

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

[davidferril]

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!

[furicle]

First thing I tried was

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

not a simple fix I suspect....

[mariuszs]

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

[stoyan100yanov]

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

[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.

[idank]

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.

[lukeasrodgers]

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

Unable to locate this in nroff format, sorry.

[zaratan]

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

[rajnathani]

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

[analogsignals]

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

[washuu]

squid option -N is not recognised.

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

[heyakyra]

ntfsck!

[masterninja01]

ipconfig not recognised

[raytraced]

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

[tonyo]

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

[giovanisp]

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

[pimlottc]

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

[theddaywork]

How about adding cowsay?
https://linux.die.net/man/1/cowsay

[demonwithhalo]

Missing Unix command nettop
nettop -- Display updated information about the network
Man Page Raw Text: https://pastebin.com/fwCTPZ6P

[PatMyron]

@idank pin this issue? 📌

also thinking a top list of missing commands could be automatically generated from site searches themselves

[bdmorin]

I created a repo with all the source man pages I used here, clone it and send me a pull request.

This repo hasn't been updated in 5 years, is this not how you want contribs now?

I would like exa added
https://github.com/ogham/exa/blob/master/contrib/man/exa.1

[idank]

Sadly I don't have the capacity to service these requests to add man pages. I think I mentioned it before. It's too time consuming.

It really ought to be a self service kind of thing, but that opens the door for abuse. Community driven was also thrown out there as an option. If anyone wanted to take that on as a project, that'd be great.

[rpdelaney]

In my opinion, a big part of the problem is the lack of modularization in the codebase.

Ideally, it should be possible to have separate databases to choose from. (That is, give me the ubuntu manpages, give me the archlinux manpages, redhat, etc).

That way pull requests could be accepted from trusted sources to update them without much manual intervention on the part of the maintainer(s).

That may be an even bigger project, but it would eliminate the recurring maintenance effort of servicing one-off requests constantly.

[YanhuiJessica]

Add docker exec(https://manpages.debian.org/testing/docker.io/docker-exec.1.en.html) please.
Thanks!

[bdmorin]

nmap lex doensn't know what -i is.

https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=nmap+-p445%2C139+--script+duplicates%2Csmb-protocols+-i+Downloads%2Fip1+-oA+ip1+--open+-PN+--stats-every+5s+-n#

I'd be happy to submit a PR, but I have no idea where to do that for this project.

[xunxky]

https://manned.org/jq.1

[sec000]

Please add the searchsploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/searchsploit

[jelek21]

I can see that wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli man pages are missing :)
Really nice project thought, I might have a look at the code and try to help through PRs

[kirisakow]

Please add support for update-alternatives
https://man.cx/update-alternatives

[kism]

journalctl

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/journalctl.1.html

[schrectacular]

rg (ripgrep)
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/rg.1.html
(love this tool, btw!)

[kirisakow]

Please add support for Android Debug Bridge, aka adb
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/adb.1.html

[Waking-Reality]

Please add support for 'compgen'.

https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/1/compgen/

[qmonnet]

Hi, would it be possible to add support for bpftool, please?
https://www.mankier.com/package/bpftool

[martilidad]

Please add support for 'bridge'.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/bridge.8.html

[furai]

Apt seems to be missing.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man8/apt.8.html

[liar666]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the tool, it's very useful and very beautiful!

I read that you'll not be filling the requests posted here. However, I'll post mine, just in case someone takes over the project.

Apparently, the fsck.ext4 <-> e2fsck aliasing is not recognized...

• https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=fsck.ext4+-cDfty+-C+0+%2Fdev%2Fsdb => 'missing man page / No man page found for fsck.ext4.'
• https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=e2fsck+-cDfty+-C+0+%2Fdev%2Fsdb => OK

@heyakyra @masterninja01 ntfsck and ipconfig are Microsoft™ Windows™ commands, not Unix shell (GNU/Linux) commands. Of course they are not recognized! And they can't be, as they have no associated man pages (as man pages are Unix documentation for Unix commands)! There's probably a (badly formatted) documentation somewhere lost in the antique DOS™ documentations, but it's probably under proprietary Microsoft™ licence terms, thus cannot be freely re-published on a public website like explainshell...

[Robot-In-A-Can]

For mac users it would be wonderful to have brew added.

[Grip]

curl manpage seems to be outdated, it misses parameters like --connect-to which could be found here https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html

[matthewruzzi]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/brew/master/manpages/brew.1

[kirisakow]

Please add support for

• $$: the process ID of bash shell itself
• $!: the process ID of the most recently executed command in background

(Source: https://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/06/special-bash-parameters-in-script-linux.html)

[ELLIOTTCABLE]

Some other macOS-specific tools would be great — is there perhaps a way to collate those automatically, in a similar way you do with Ubuntu?

(The one I noticed today: codesign.)

[Dentrax]

caffeinate - https://ss64.com/osx/caffeinate.html

[cmcke99]

please add support for udevadm