human(1)

human is a heuristics utility for man(1).

Its primary intent is to improve manpage lookups by analyzing shell aliases and shell functions during the lookup process.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Notes
• Examples

Installation

git clone https://github.com/nickolasburr/human.git
cd human
make install

The default prefix is /usr/local/opt. To install to an alternate location, pass PREFIX to make install.

make install PREFIX=/opt

To install human(1) manpage:

make manpage

Configuration

Since human requires access to the shell environment, it is implemented as a shell function. Likewise, it
will need to be sourced from a shell configuration file (e.g. .bashrc).

[[ -f /usr/local/opt/human/src/human.sh ]] && . /usr/local/opt/human/src/human.sh

Notes

Only shell aliases are supported as of this version.

Examples

Get manpage for GNU tail(1) instead of BSD tail(1).

alias tail='gtail'
human tail