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 — Nikhil Mulley, Jun 10 '12 at 14:51
do you think it's possible that I don't have this manpage? I'm on a fresh install of Debian 6.04. — Soyuz, Jun 10 '12 at 15:07
"Doesn't work"? Please be more specific. What exactly happens? Do you get an error? — Mikel, Jun 10 '12 at 21:57
It just can't find it, but turns out I needed the attr package and not just libattr, so it works now! — Soyuz, Jun 11 '12 at 15:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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You can view it like this:

man 5 attr

For a full explanation, take a look here

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community

answered Jun 10 '12 at 14:51

Eugene S

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. http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=attr.5.gz&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any – Mikel Jun 10 '12 at 22:03

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