Is there an option to output a manual page in a different language? I don't want to change the computer language completely, but only specific manual pages.
For example
$ man -English man
Man is a manual program
…
$ man -Russian man
Инструцтия для Unix, BSD и Linux.
…
Best Answer
If your
man
is from the man-db package (man 2.x, like on most GNU/Linux distributions), the fastest way is to use the-L
flag ofman
. You need just to know the abbreviation of the wanted locale.If you use the other man implementation (man 1.x), the only way is to change the environment variables
$LC_MESSAGES
or$LANG
like described in the other answers.