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Unix man pages
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Man pages are written in the markdown format and converted to correct format with pandoc.

Generate man-pages with "pandoc -s -t man test.1.md -o test.1"

Local man pages can be viewed with "man ./my_man_page"

Process is described here 
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6891/how-can-i-add-man-page-entries-for-my-own-power-tools>


Install manpages
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1.) sudo cp examplecommand.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
2.) sudo mandb