Tristan Partin on Nostr: Today I learned about mandb(1). Apparently you have to run it when new man pages are ...
Today I learned about mandb(1). Apparently you have to run it when new man pages are added or removed. I assume this happens automatically for man pages managed by good package managers like dnf, but when you install pages elsewhere, you are tasked with updating the database yourself. Is there any sort of automation I can add to my workflows for updating the various man page databases that aren't managed by dnf? #Fedora #Linux
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