macOS 10.14.4
If I type man say
at the command line, I get the error: man: no manual page say
.
I've checked and the file say.1
is present in the folder /usr/share/man/man1
. Why can man
not find it?
macosmanmojave
macOS 10.14.4
If I type man say
at the command line, I get the error: man: no manual page say
.
I've checked and the file say.1
is present in the folder /usr/share/man/man1
. Why can man
not find it?
Best Answer
I'm on High Sierra and when I do a
man -aw say
it shows the following:Which agrees with your location as well. You can use the following command to see how
man
is attempting to display the appropriate man page forsay
:Based on that output my
say.1
man page is located here:/usr/share/man/man1/say.1
.You can copy/paste this command in pieces to see where things are breaking for you as well.
For example:
And keep adding pieces to see where it's failing on your end.