unmanned

A wrapper over man(1) that displays manpages in your browser instead of the console. It uses mandoc to render pages and runs a (locally-accessible only by default) web server that lets you navigate between them, without having to pre-convert them all to HTML first.

It does not provide any indexing or search features; just a way to read manpages locally in a nicer format than the console allows.

How to use

Ensure you have mandoc installed, then run unmanned <page> or unmanned <section> <page> just like you would do with regular man. When you're done browsing manuals, press Ctrl-C to shut down the server.

If you just want to start the server, run just unmanned.

In any of these cases, you can add -p <address>:<port> to specify the address and port that unmanned should listen on. By default, it binds to the loopback interface on a system-chosen port.

URL structure

• /<page>: displays the same page as man <page>
• /<section>/<page>: displays the same page as man <section> <page>