Man Eye

How cool would it be to learn Linux through the man pages. To make it even more fun, I made this script with various options and with a cool retro terminal.

I recommend watching the video so you can see the install the various options, how you can adjust this script to your own needs, and some other cool things.

Here you can read the article on BullsEye0.com

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Somehow the man pages always remind me a bit of the past, to old school. I've also been told by "Linux people" that they learned Linux just by reading the manual pages. How cool is that.!

This is nonsense, of course, or am I wrong here that the man pages have to do with the past. I went to find out and looked it up.

In the first two years of the history of Unix, no documentation existed. The first Unix Programmer's Manual was first published on November 3, 1971.

So actually the man pages have been around for so long, even before people started using the Internet, the world wide web (www) and even before Microsoft existed.

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Man Eye

To be able to use Man Eye, some other "awesome" tools have to be installed. This depends a bit on which Linux distribution you use. This script has been tested on Debian-based and Arch Linux.

sudo apt install suckless-tools

sudo apt install cool-retro-term

sudo apt install zathura

sudo apt install groff

sudo apt install fzf

Or in one line:

sudo apt install suckless-tools zathura groff cool-retro-term fzf

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Install Man Eye

git clone https://github.com/BullsEye0/man-eye.git

cd man-eye

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Use Man Eye

bash man-eye.sh

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There are 5 options you can use

• Random-Man-Page As the name predicts, this option chooses a random manual page. Maybe a great idea to select and learn a random Man Eye page every day 😃

• Search-Man-Pages This option allows you to search for a manual page via the dmenu

• Man-On-Steroids How cool is this option! In the square in your terminal you can already read a bit about what it is about.

• Man-PDF The output of the man page in a PDF format. Here I chose Zathura. Zathura is a minimalist and is a highly customizable document viewer. It is easy to print in PDF format.

• And of course as the last the "Quit"

To exit all windows, just press the "q" to quit.

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Have fun ..! 😃

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Contact to coder

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Jolanda de Koff or Bulls Eye

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• Email: jolanda@bullseye0.com

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