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Unix Manpages in Markdown

An attempt to provide converted manpages in markdown format.

I'm actually fairly new to manpages as a format, but very familiar with Markdown. Frankly, I expected to find a whole bunch of redundant projects like this one, but have come up emptyhanded.

So far, I've used mandoc via SSH from my iPad to a shared macOS-running machine using a Siri Shortcut.

Inspired by this guide, my shortcut is using the following command to send markdown-formatted results to stdout:

mandoc -T markdown `man -w Repeat Item`