Read the Friendly Manual — Open Unix Manual Pages

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Usage

Search installed manual pages via the man keyword.

• ↩ Open in primary viewer.
• ⌥↩ Open in secondary viewer.
  

The viewer app set in the Workflow’s Configuration determines the generated format:

• Alfred Text View: ASCII text.
• Alfred PDF View: PDF.
• PDF App: PDF.
• Quick Look: HTML.
• Web Browser: HTML.
• Terminal: Standard view.
  

When viewing in Alfred, ⌥↩ opens the alternative viewer.

⤓ Install on the Alfred Gallery | Source

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When reporting issues, please include your exact installed versions of:

• The Workflow.
• Alfred.
• macOS.

In addition to:

• The debugger output. Perform the failing action, click “Copy” on the top right and paste it here.
• Details on what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen. A short video of the steps with the debugger open may help to find the problem faster.

Thank you. Accurate and thorough information is crucial for a proper diagnosis which allows me to help you better.

[vitor]

Updated to 2024.2.

macOS 14.4 stable broke searching of manual pages with man (FB13690576), so they are now retrieved by location. This alters the results list slightly, as retrieving descriptions one by one takes too long. But by showing the path in the subtitle, it’s now possible to differentiate between different manuals with the same name (e.g. for a tool which ships with the system but you have installed a more recent version with Homebrew).

[Gary Ash]

I'm really liking the workflow!. Thank you for it.

 

Is there a way to make the view window bigger and/or save the text size.  As it is now I have to zoom in each time

[Stephen_C]

2 hours ago, Gary Ash said:

 

Is there a way to make the view window bigger

You should be able to use cmd + zero to toggle the window size.

 

Stephen