The other answers are great. But I thought I (the OP) ought to share what I do these days (a year or two after the question). I use Sphinx and its Markdown extension. Do the following: TL;DR: See Gist snippet. Sphinx-markdown-builder You need sphinx-markdown-builder python module. pip install sphinx sphinx-markdown-builder; Run Sphinx Not the autodoc, … Read more
If you are looking to open linux style man pages in Windows, then get Groff for Windows to view the man pages on your command line as follows: groff -Tascii -mm your_file | more
man 2 bind You need a result from a different section of the manual! Man searches various sections for the information you want. As devnull lists below, the number indicates which section to search. Incidentally, bind is a system call, not a C library function. System calls (kernel calls) are in section 2 of the … Read more
Square Brackets [ ] The square brackets ( [ ] ) indicate that the enclosed element (parameter, value, or information) is optional. You can choose zero or more items. Do not type the square brackets themselves in the command line. Example: [global options], [source arguments], [destination arguments] Angle Brackets < > The angle brackets ( … Read more
NAME putenv – change or add an environment variable SYNOPSIS #include <stdlib.h> int putenv(char *string); DESCRIPTION The putenv() function adds or changes the value of environment variables. The argument string is of the form name=value. If name does not already exist in the environment, then string is added to the environment. If name does exist, … Read more
You can try to read your file by doing man path_to_file as man will treat the given argument as a file if it finds a slash / in it. For instance man ./my_test will open the my_test file, while man my_test will look in the standard manual for the given command.
If you use the “normal” libstdc++ shipped with g++, its documentation is available online here. Most Linux distributions make it also available offline as a particular package; for Debian-derived distros, for example, it’s libstdc++-6-<version>-doc (e.g. on my Ubuntu machine I have libstdc++-6-4.4-doc installed). In general the documentation will be put somewhere like /usr/share/doc/libstdc++-6-4.4-doc. This about … Read more
It’s the section that the man page for the command is assigned to. These are split as General commands System calls C library functions Special files (usually devices, those found in /dev) and drivers File formats and conventions Games and screensavers Miscellanea System administration commands and daemons Original descriptions of each section can be seen … Read more