どのmanをのファイルを見てるかハッキリさせる

man -w

man ファイルが同名でいっぱい合った時に、どのmanpage ファイルを見ているのか、調べたい

man -w ssh

man がいっぱいある時に便利

たとえば、homebrew でsshを入れているので、man を探すと、これだけヒットする。ssh(1) が複数あることになってる

ssh(1)                   - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)
ssh-add(1)               - adds private key identities to the authentication agent
ssh-agent(1)             - authentication agent
ssh-copy-id(1)           - use locally available keys to authorise logins on a remote machine
ssh-keygen(1)            - authentication key generation, management and conversion
ssh-keyscan(1)           - gather ssh public keys
ssh-keysign(8)           - ssh helper program for host-based authentication
ssh-pkcs11-helper(8)     - ssh-agent helper program for PKCS#11 support
ssh_config(5)            - OpenSSH SSH client configuration files
sshd(8)                  - OpenSSH SSH daemon
sshd_config(5)           - OpenSSH SSH daemon configuration file
CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES(3) - set desired auth types for SFTP and SCP
CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5(3) - checksum of SSH server public key
CURLOPT_SSH_KEYDATA(3)   - pointer to apss to the SSH key callback
CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION(3) - callback for known host matching logic
CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS(3) - file name holding the SSH known hosts
CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE(3) - set private key file for SSH auth
CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE(3) - set public key file for SSH auth
Net::DNS::RR::SSHFP(3pm) - DNS SSHFP resource record
Tcl_NewObj(3tcl), Tcl_DuplicateObj(3tcl), Tcl_IncrRefCount(3tcl), Tcl_DecrRefCount(3tcl), Tcl_IsShared(3tcl), Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(3tcl) - manipulate Tcl objects
crosshair(n)             - Crosshairs for Tk canvas
glIsShader(3G)           - Determines if a name corresponds to a shader object
ssh(1)                   - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)
ssh-add(1)               - adds private key identities to the authentication agent
ssh-agent(1)             - authentication agent
ssh-keygen(1)            - authentication key generation, management and conversion
ssh-keyscan(1)           - gather ssh public keys
ssh-keysign(8)           - ssh helper program for host-based authentication
ssh-pkcs11-helper(8)     - ssh-agent helper program for PKCS#11 support
ssh_config(5)            - OpenSSH SSH client configuration files
sshd(8)                  - OpenSSH SSH daemon
sshd-keygen-wrapper(8), ssh-keygen(8) - authentication key generation, management and conversion
sshd_config(5)           - OpenSSH SSH daemon configuration file
upsshutdown(8)           - UPS emergency low power shutdown script
git-shell(1)             - Restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access

おおすぎ！sshd 関連で２個もあるじゃん。

man ssh でどのmanpageが開かれるかは -w オプションで見られる。

takuya@:~/Desktop$ man -w ssh
/usr/local/share/man/man1/ssh.1