Macho Is Man Pages On Steroids

I came across this fantastic blog post about a shell script called "macho" that searches for manpages. It uses a variety of shell commands including: man, apropos, grep, sed, awk, sort and fzf. You can also use it in conjunction with a launcher like dmenu or rofi.

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[HiPhish]

It feels kind of weird having someone talk about me in the third person :) Nice video, I'm glad that people like it, and you explained the steps very well.

[keevee]

25 years on Linux and I never knew of apropos. You learn something new every day, not the least lesson being how little one knows.

[MyurrDurr]

The fact you can generate a PDF on the fly like this on Linux still blows my mind

[pigeonduckthing]

my all time favorite Linux command is "man touch", makes me laugh every time...

[jimdaniels]

Half of my excitement for machoman comes from your excitement. Love your content DT. It has motivated me to start my own channel

[Kivencito]

AMAZING CONTENT! Just today i was looking into dmenu and rofi, and you come out from nowhere and deliver this video... Thanks!

[IsraelJuliusKJ]

Derek, thank you very much for the sectional breakdown of the commands! Helps a lot.

[andrewpalm]

Derek, thanks for going through the script and explaining how it functions. Very informative!

[richardryan]

I’d like to recommend (or request) you check out the emacs “woman” command if you’re interested in interfaces to man pages. And sending the output of grep to awk seems quite unnecessary—just write the appropriate filter for awk.

[MarcoMonteiro]

For me there's nothing better than TLDR if you don't know it give it a shot

[francescominnocci]

Hi DT, great video!

I tried the scripts, there's a couple details I wanted to tell you about:
- in the "GUI" script, you should check if a manual was selected with "-n", and not "-z", i'm sure that was just an oversight
- if $READER is actually set to be "zathura", then one would be missing the "-" to tell it to read from stin; so it's just better to use "$READER -" directly, as any program that would work with this would need to be able to read from stdin in any case.

[lexxmurk]

real man manpage reader :) Thanks DT! last days im subsribed to your channel! pls do what you do more :) you doing the best!
thanks ) very usefull

[KevinBReynolds]

Thanks for sharing DT. Appreciate it.

[praetorxyn]

I love the PDF pipe... except for the fact that the PDF is your traditional eye-blinding white background and black text, instead of the dark background / light text everyone sane uses for their terminal.

[BrucesWorldofStuff]

Wow! That is so cool, a PDF output! While I use TLDR at times this could be a great tool for the tool box!
Thanks DT or the video and links. Just what I needed a Saturday Night project... Lol
LLAP

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Derek. I am a fan of man but I had not heard of this until now.

[ravishankarsarma]

Thanks for this video. Would you please make a video on obsstudio and tell us your setup. How to screencast pdf slides, particulary in MAC book air. How do you record your YouTube videos? Which budget (microphone) one needs to buy?

[aaaa-whlj]

Which statusbar is DT running during this video. I went to his dotfiles but only found the old one.

[mrskilzthrilz]

How can I get your color scheme to use for dwm and st?

[ratboyOwO]

could you tell me what compositor and bar you're using? thanks!