attr man page missing?

Question

How does one search for certain manpages (such as http://linux.die.net/man/5/attr)? Trying:

man attr

and

man -K attr

don't seem to work.

Any ideas why?

man -k keyword # works for me. although check for MANPATH variable.. man -L
do you think it's possible that I don't have this manpage? I'm on a fresh install of Debian 6.04.
"Doesn't work"? Please be more specific. What exactly happens? Do you get an error?
It just can't find it, but turns out I needed the attr package and not just libattr, so it works now!

Eugene S · Answer 1 · 2012-06-10 14:51:35Z

up vote 1 down vote

You can view it like this:

man 5 attr

For a full explanation, take a look here

answered Jun 10 '12 at 14:51

Eugene S
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	I tried that as well. Is it possible that I actually don't have that specific manpage? (Edit: This refers to a fresh text install of Debian 6.04) – Soyuz Jun 10 '12 at 15:02
	On Debian the `attr` command and the related man pages are in the attr package. Is it installed? – manatwork Jun 10 '12 at 16:12
	You're right, for some reason I thought the manpages were the libattr package, but installing attr fixed that. Thanks! – Soyuz Jun 10 '12 at 16:32
	`apt-file` or packages.debian.org can tell you which package provides a given file. e.g. packages.debian.org/… – Mikel Jun 10 '12 at 22:03

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