Today I just discovered another cool tool: man2html. Funny enough, I saw it mentioned in a Mac OS hints blog. man2html allows you to see the local man pages in your favorite browser.

In order to install man2html on an Ubuntu box do the following:

• Install the man2html package through Synaptic or apt-get
• Make sure you have apache2 installed and running
• Now you can just go to the following URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html :-)

You can also use the command line using hman instead of man:

• Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file: export MANHTMLPAGER=firefox, this tells hman what browser to use, replace firefox with whatever browser you are using
• Now instead of man use hman, for example try hman man2html

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