How to read a .man file not on manpath?

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Nagel picture Nagel · Dec 1, 2011 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

How do I read a .man file that's not on my manpath? I know I had a command for this, but now I don't remember, and I can't find the right switch in the man pages for man.

Answer

AlQafir picture AlQafir · Dec 1, 2011

You can try to read your file by doing

man path_to_file

as man will treat the given argument as a file if it finds a slash / in it. For instance

man ./my_test

will open the my_test file, while

man my_test

will look in the standard manual for the given command.

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