How to access linux man pages and output specific manual page to a .txt file

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Category: Linux Terminal

Added: 29th of November 2021

Updated On: Tutorial updated and rechecked on 28th of March 2023

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➔ Export man pages in .html or .pdf format by installing mandoc on Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions

The man (manual) pages, provide information about the packages installed on your system as well as Linux system commands plus a list of extra commands / arguments that can be used through the terminal.

For example the man (manual) pages for google chrome can be found by entering the following command in the terminal

For the command top




You can also output the man page to a .txt file. In the example below I am outputting the man page for google chrome using the following commands below.