{"id":1960,"date":"2006-03-23T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mac-tip-view-man-pages-insafari"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:24:11","slug":"mac-tip-view-man-pages-insafari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/mac-tip-view-man-pages-insafari\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Tip: View man Pages in Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term <em>man page<\/em> probably sounds strange to many, so this bears a bit of explanation. When one has their Terminal open and is hacking around a bit, one needs to know how to use the commands. There are literally thousands of commands available on your Mac, very powerful commands, all with a very obscure syntax. Generally, you can get information about a command by typing in <code>man commandname<\/code>. This is really helpful, but it interrupts your workflow, and the Terminal is admittedly not the best place to view documentation.<\/p>\n<p>But Safari is! Just grab <a href=\"http:\/\/bruji.com\/bwana\/index.html\">Bwana<\/a> and install it in your <code>\/Applications\/Utilities<\/code> folder. Now, instead of typing in <code>man command<\/code> at the command line, type in <code>man:command<\/code> in Safari. Just like that, a beautiful man page you can keep open while you work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term man page probably sounds strange to many, so this bears a bit of explanation. When one has their Terminal open and is hacking around a bit, one needs to know how to use the commands. There are literally thousands of commands available on your Mac, very powerful commands, all with a very obscure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[510],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/work_woodsman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}