Man page about hr

[LuRsT]

Wow, that is awesome! But how do I add that to my man files or create a way to install that to system (or just for a user at least) so that someone can do a "man hr" and get this?

[dotemacs]

Glad you like it 😄

Try something like man -w, which should give you a list of directories where the man files are kept.

So for example under /usr/share/man you'll find man1 directory. Create a file under it called hr.1, then run

man hr

That should display the man page. 😄

If it doesn't, capture the output/describe the error and I'll try to help you out.

Let me know how you get on.

[dotemacs]

Try adding this Makefile to your project:

prefix = /usr/local

install:
        cp hr $(prefix)/bin/
        cp hr.1 $(prefix)/man/man1/

The users can then just run:

make install

to install it.

And if they don't like the /usr/local as the location, they can edit the variable prefix to their liking.

[LuRsT]

Hi @dotemacs, awesome!

Can you send me a pull request with that Makefile, and the hr.1 as well, so I can give you proper credit?

Cheers!

[dotemacs]

Sure, coming up...

[LuRsT]

I'm gonna close this issue since I merged the pull request :)