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Created February 21, 2014 07:25
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Running GNU coreutils via Homebrew on your Mac? Here's a one-liner to get the manpages working!
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osx-brew-gnu-coreutils-man.sh
# Short of learning how to actually configure OSX, here's a hacky way to use
# GNU manpages for programs that are GNU ones, and fallback to OSX manpages otherwise
alias man='_() { echo $1; man -M $(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman $1 1>/dev/null 2>&1; if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then man -M $(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman $1; else man $1; fi }; _'
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This man hack command now not working in macOS 12.3.1 .. when i put this in my alias file and try to type man it stuck on "ma" only.. shall we have new workaround

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