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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.

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Maythux
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Bulrush
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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
heemayl
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  • Can I do the same thing with nedit? I prefer nedit as an editor. – Bulrush Jul 09 '15 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 09 '15 at 15:55
  • I don't really like vim, I like nedit. It meets my needs. – Bulrush Jul 09 '15 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 09 '15 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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