Man Reader

Man Reader

By TrozWare

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2012-05-10
  • Current Version: 2.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 3.99 MB
  • Developer: TrozWare
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
$9.99 On itunes

Description

Man Reader allows quick, convenient and easy access to the man pages on your system, useful for programmers, system administrators and tweakers. Man pages provide the help needed to configure and use Unix commands and are usually accessed through Terminal, but this is a clumsy and inconvenient way to view the pages. Features: • List the man pages on your system. • Show only pages in a selected section. • Search for a man page by name. • Bookmark your favorite pages. • Jump to sub-sections in a page. • Live links to 'See Also' entries. • Search for text within a page. • Display man pages in text or HTML (different pages look best in different formats). • See and use your History of recently viewed pages. • Add your own custom notes to any man page. • Choose a font and font sizes for the display. • View the app's custom man page for help. • Extensive support for keyboard operations. • Open multiple tabs or windows. • Add custom search locations.

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Reviews

  • Very Useful

    5
    By _NM_
    Not a necessity, but this makes reading the manual _so much_ easier. Worth its price.

  • Great little app!

    5
    By lwdupont
    Love it for remembering some unix commands and learning new ones!

  • Great app

    5
    By School System IT
    I use this all the time worth every penny paid for it.

  • Good App, Could Use a Few More Features

    4
    By Relentless1240
    Not a bad alternative to reading man pages from the Terminal interface, or reading them in Vim or Emacs. Competes with the free untility Man Viewer which has two features that I wish Man Reader would consider implementing: tabs and the ability to add a path to the Man Path. Both the above features would make it close to ‘perfect’. All in all though a good stable utility for system admins, developers or anyone else curious enough to read man pages on OSX.

  • Great Idea & Well Executed

    5
    By Orangermac
    What a fantastic app. Will help me learn what is availabe and navigate through related pages. One thing that threw me at first: I’m used to searching for flags like -s . If you do this, you get no results unless you escape the dash: \-s It’d be great if -s would work, either by default or via a Preference option. Wish I had something like this on the Raspberry Pi, Cent OS, etc. side.

  • Great Application

    5
    By oxoocoffee
    Simple :) and easy to use. Good job!!! Another great release. Thank you….

  • Handy App

    4
    By David Sheeks
    This is a nice, inexpensive application well worth looking at. It provides a clean and simple front end for man pages with some quick access features to jump to individual pages and sections and browse back / forward through previously viewed man pages. The UI could use a bit of work (the colors on the section tabs on the right are a bit ugly) but the application seems to work well and definitely adds value beyond to the command line interface (this from someone who works much of the time at a command prompt). Splitting panes in tmux sessions to view man pages will be much less common now. Update ideas: bookmarking, save notes associated with specific pages, search across man page content in addition to page names.

  • Handy

    4
    By Scottie Tee
    Nice to have a separate viewer for man pages besides Terminal. Basic, no fluff. And the sections dropdown and search are useful for finding those tools I used months ago, but can't quite remember the name of it.

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