Ever since upgrading to Lion I’ve been making a few slight changes in workflow. One such change, which I’m still on the fence about, is to switch from reading man pages in a tiled Terminal screen, to reading them in a browser window. It seems like a small thing, but I spend a lot of time switching between terminal screens or using screen to switch between sessions. Bwana allows you to read a man page from within a browser. Simply load download the Bwana app into your /Applications directory and wait a few seconds. Then open a browser window and look for a man page. For example: man:dsconfigad Now, you…
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Adding Man Pages
There are a number of man pages in Mac OS X that don’t show up when you type man followed by the command – especially if you’ve gone and started bolting new open source software onto your OS that keeps its man page in its own directory structure. If you have the path to a directory of man pages then you can view these using the man command easily once you add it to your MANPATH. The MANPATH is an environment variable that can be set by editing a users .bash_profile directory. Simply add the directory you’d like to scan in a new line that starts with MANPATH=. For example…