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darthvader

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From: The Beehive

Registered: 2013-12-14

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[solved] brush: man page impossible to read

$ pacman -Ql brush
brush /usr/
brush /usr/bin/
brush /usr/bin/brush
brush /usr/share/
brush /usr/share/doc/
brush /usr/share/doc/brush/
brush /usr/share/doc/brush/README.md
brush /usr/share/licenses/
brush /usr/share/licenses/brush/
brush /usr/share/licenses/brush/LICENSE
brush /usr/share/man/
brush /usr/share/man/man1.gz

the brush shell provides a man page, how can I read it? `man brush` doesn't work and `man man` doesn't work either.

Last edited by darthvader (2026-06-06 12:26:50)

dasrubbellos

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Registered: 2026-06-06

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

Play through this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Man_page

If this doesn't help, provide the actual error message or at least an actual description beyond "it doesn't work".

256

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

Have you tried passing the whole filepath to man, i.e. "man /usr/share/man/man1.gz"?

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StarWolf3000

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

I suspect a packaging issue on the Arch side, otherwise it would be possible to read the man page at https://man.archlinux.org/listing/extra/brush/. The path in the package, /usr/share/man/man1.gz looks suspicious, it should actually be at /usr/share/man/man1/brush.1.gz.

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darthvader

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

Have you tried passing the whole filepath to man, i.e. "man /usr/share/man/man1.gz"?

i just tried that and it works, good to know there's an inconvenient way to read the man page. starwolf3000's linked man page doesn't work either.

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … rk_items/2

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dasrubbellos

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

Would be interesting to know, why man man doesn't work, either.

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

'man man' works fine here. Open a new topic about your issue.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … _hijacking

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darthvader

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

Would be interesting to know, why man man doesn't work, either.

man `man man` works for man, but `man man` doesn't work for brush, which is expected here because that is the brush man page.

Last edited by darthvader (2026-06-07 06:39:07)

seth

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

"man man" shall open /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz for you (as is provided by man-db)
If the former location of the brush manpage had been accepted by "man 5 manpath" at all it would rather have been "man man1"?

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dasrubbellos

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Re: [solved] brush: man page impossible to read

I have misunderstood. Thank you for clarifying.