DMAN(1)

DMAN(1) 💖 dman — General Commands Manual

okay so picture this, bestie: you need a Debian manpage, but make it fetch-from-the-internet. That’s dman, and it’s lowkey iconic. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

dman — read man pages from manpages.debian.org ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dman [ --release suite ] man-page

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

dman fetches a manpage from the online service manpages.debian.org using and curl and displays it locally using man -l. Yes bestie, that’s the whole vibe: grab the page, then show it with man -l. 🫶

If the --release argument is provided, packages are fetched from that suite instead of the default suite, found through /etc/lsb-release or lsb_release -c -s. So --release is your “pick a different Debian suite” button. 🎀

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

dman will fetch translated pages first if the $LANG or $LC_MESSAGES environment variables are set. It will fallback to the default manpage if the translated version is not found. Translating first, falling back gracefully — she’s got range. 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

dman was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>, based on a framework by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> and ported to the debiman framework by Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>. Axel Beckert and Javier Fernández-Sanguino have also contributed to this program. ✨

This manpage was written by Antoine Beaupré. 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• man(1)
• debiman(1)

Go check man(1) and debiman(1) — iykyk. 🏃‍♀️💨

🫶 Source/version moment: General Commands Manual, DMAN(1), dated 21 April 2017. That’s the whole page, bestie — periodt. 💅✨