Apple - How to view man pages in a web browser?
One way to do this is to put the following command in ~/.profile
:
export PAGER="col -b | open -a /Applications/Safari.app -f"
The PAGER
environmental variable controls what program man
uses to display man pages. the col
command removes all of the backspace-formatting from the man page. The open
command saves the output as a temporary text file and opens it with Safari.app
.
Or you can edit the PAGER variable in /private/etc/man.conf
. You could also probably edit the NROFF
variable and eliminate the need to use col -b
. See the man page for man.conf
.
http://www.bruji.com/bwana/ is exactly what you're looking for.
You can add a function to your ~/.bash_profile
:
function gman () {
man "$1" | col -b > "/tmp/$1"
open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" "/tmp/$1"
}