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I've done some Googling and searched on askubuntu and haven't found my answer yet. I'd like to make some minor edits to the tsql man pages on my system only, to clarify things. I've found the man page path with man -w tsql. How do I edit them?

Thank you.

  • Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
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You can do this easily using vim or gedit.

As vim and gedit can edit the zipped files, you can do :

vim "$(man -w tsql)"
gedit "$(man -w tsql)"

$() is the shell command substitution pattern, which will be replaced by the output of man -w tsql. So if the output of man -w tsql is /usr/share/man/man1/tsql, the above commands are equivalent to :

vim /usr/share/man/man1/tsql
gedit /usr/share/man/man1/tsql
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  • Can I do the same thing with nedit? I prefer nedit as an editor.
    – Bulrush
    Jul 9, 2015 at 15:47
  • @Bulrush Check my edits.. think you have meant gedit..if you meant nedit then the answer is no, you can't do it with nedit..why using nedit when there is a far better editor like gedit is available..
    – heemayl
    Jul 9, 2015 at 15:55
  • I don't really like vim, I like nedit. It meets my needs.
    – Bulrush
    Jul 9, 2015 at 16:20
  • @Bulrush What about gedit ? You can't directly edit compressed files using nedit ..you need to uncompress it first, then edit with nedit and then compress back again....I think using gedit might be your best bet here if you don't like vim..
    – heemayl
    Jul 9, 2015 at 16:23
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you can use an application named gmanedit.

Install it:

sudo apt-get install gmanedit

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And now you can open the man page of tsql. Normally the man pages are located under /usr/share/man/ directory.

locate the tsql man page then you can edit with the application above

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