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Download skeleton.x
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Open skeleton.x with your favourite text-editor and replace the content in lines: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20.
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Save the file and give it a new name. (Example: human.1)
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Compress the man page (See Example)
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Evaluate where to move the compressed man page
Subdirectories for the different man page sections (Click to expand)
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Copy the compressed man page into the man page directory of your choice (See Example)
cp human.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
- Make sure that the man page can be called by man. (See Example)
To improve or suggest something simply open an issue or submit a Pull.
- Fork it (https://github.com/AlexanderBodin/man-page-skeleton/fork)
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request