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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 04:48:24 JST nixCraft 🐧

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   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 04:50:55 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     on linux you can do it as follows:

     man 1 ls
     # OR #
     man 'ls(1)'

     The last syntax is extra typing but does works.