W3MMAN(1)

💖 W3MMAN(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, so like… this is w3mman, section 1 of the general commands manual, and it's genuinely about to change your whole terminal life. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

w3mman — an interface to the on-line reference manuals via w3m(1)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

w3mman [ -M path ] [ [ section ] page ]
w3mman [ -M path ] [ section ] -k keyword
w3mman -l file

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so w3mman is a Perl script, right? and what it does is it uses w3m(1) to serve as a pager for on-line reference manuals. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's giving man pages but make it browsable. 💅

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

here's the whole rundown of your options, bestie — a summary of options is included below. ✨

• -M path — specify path as alternative MANPATH to use. literally telling it where to look instead of the usual spot. 👑
• -k keyword — specify keyword. you're searching for a word, and this is the word. 🍓
• -l file — specify a file. just hand it a file, no thoughts, head empty. 🧚

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

two variables are available for debugging. only two. iconic, honestly.

• W3MMAN_W3M — if W3MMAN_W3M is set, its value is used instead of w3m. so like, swap out your w3m for something else if you want. 🙈
• W3MMAN_MAN — if W3MMAN_MAN is set, its value is used instead of /usr/bin/man. same deal, but for man. 💜

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🫶 FILES 🫶

• /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi — manual page to HTML converter. this little guy is doing the heavy lifting of turning your man page into HTML. main character energy fr fr. 🔥

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

man(1), w3m(1).

go read those too, iykyk. 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). slay, king. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version is from 2016-07-13 and it belongs to W3MMAN(1) — ok bye, go read some man pages the pretty way 🌸🦋💖