1. GUI for Man pages on Mac OS X. It captures a list of all Man pages on the system, allows for searches by keyword and also a viewer within which to read and scroll. While the Terminal will do.
2. Want a postscript file of the groff man page that is then opened in Preview? $ groff -mandoc x.ps `man -w groff` $ open x.ps How about a system that will typset a manuscript? There is a document processing system called mom. It is a set of commands to groff that resides in what is called a macro file. Create a text file called x.txt and fill.

This guide helps you get started using Pages 10.3 on your Mac. To see the version of Pages on your Mac, choose Pages About Pages (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen). To explore the Pages user guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

Please check hints before (and after) posting.

For this line to work one has to replace '$' with '$'.

Wait... what?

I could say something snarky like 'Please check comments before (and after) posting', but I don't want to... ah, what the heck, I already wrote it. ;-b

Just in case it's not obvious, I'm guessing he meant that the $ in the hint should be replaced by $, but presumably the &code got auto-converted by the forum in the comment, but not in the hint.

The command does seem to be incorrect. If you copy/paste it into a Terminal window, you get a continuation prompt:
$ function man { if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1 ; elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1/$2 ; fi }
>
Not sure what replacing a $ with a $ does, bit something is not quite right.

joestalin, what happens to the 'prettified' man-page that Preview creates once you quit Preview? Is that 'page' deleted or does it remain in a cache somewhere... and if so, where?
-- David Allie

Why not just correct the hint?
function man { if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1 ; elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then open x-man-page://$1/$2 ; fi }

Anyone know how to do this in tcsh?
I'm no command line expert. I know a few things, but clearly not enough to get this working, since my efforts to adapt this for tcsh so far have failed.
I'd appreciate anyone else's successful effort! :)

Seems a lot easier to just open a browser tab, and type 'man pg' in the search bar there to get the man page that you want.

For me the best is ManOpen, a MacOS X GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages. Man pages can be opened by title, like command-line 'man' command, or using 'openman' command line tool, which is similar to 'man' command except it will display the man pages in ManOpen.app instead of directly to the terminal.
http://www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html

List directory contents.

The -1, -C, -x, and -l options all override each other; the last one specified determines the format used.
The -c and -u options override each other; the last one specified determines the file time used.
The -B, -b, -w, and -q options all override each other; the last one specified determines the format used for non-printable characters.
The -H, -L and -P options all override each other (either partially or fully); they are applied in the order specified.

By default, ls lists one entry per line to standard output; the exceptions are to terminals or when the -C or -x options are specified.

File information is displayed with one or more <blank>s separating the information associated with the -i, -s, and -l options.

The Long Format
If the -l option is given, the following information is displayed for each file: file mode, number of links, owner name, group name, number of bytes in the file, abbreviated month, day-of-month file was last modified, hour file last modified, minute file last modified, and the pathname.
In addition, for each directory whose contents are displayed, the total number of 512-byte blocks used by the files in the directory is displayed on a line by itself, immediately before the information for the files in the directory. If the file or directory has extended attributes, the permissions field printed by the -l option is followed by an @ character. Otherwise, if the file or directory has extended security information, the permissions field printed by the -l option is followed by a + character.

If the modification time of the file is more than 6 months in the past or future, then the year of the last modification is displayed in place of the hour and minute fields.

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If the owner or group names are not a known user or group name, or the -n option is given, the numeric ID's are displayed.

If the file is a character special or block special file, the major and minor device numbers for the file are displayed in the size field. If the file is a symbolic link, the
pathname of the linked-to file is preceded by ``->'.

The file mode printed under the -l option consists of the entry type, owner permissions, and group permissions. The entry type character describes the type of file, as follows:

The next three fields are three characters each: owner permissions, group permissions, and other permissions. Each field has three character positions:

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1. If r, the file is readable; if -, it is not readable.

2. If w, the file is writable; if -, it is not writable.

3. The first of the following that applies:

S If in the owner permissions, the file is not executable and set-user-ID mode is set. If in the group permissions, the file is not executable and set-group-ID mode is set.
s If in the owner permissions, the file is executable and set-user-ID mode is set. If in the group permissions, the file is executable and setgroup-ID mode is set.
x The file is executable or the directory is searchable.
- The file is neither readable, writable, executable, nor set-user-ID nor set-group-ID mode, nor sticky. (See below.)

These next two apply only to the third character in the last group (other permissions).

T The sticky bit is set (mode 1000), but not execute or search permission. (See chmod(1) or sticky(8).)
t The sticky bit is set (mode 1000), and is searchable or executable. (See chmod(1) or sticky(8).)

ls-F passes its arguments to ls if it is given any switches, so `alias ls ls-F' generally does the right thing.

Color ls Listings

To set up colour labeling, put the following in your ~/.bash_profile file (assuming bash is your default macOS shell):
export CLICOLOR='Yes'

Other ls Environment Settings

Examples

List the filenames in the current folder
$ ls
List the filenames with their characteristics (Size, Privs, Owner, etc)
$ ls -l
List the filenames with Size, Privs, Owner + Flags (-o option)
$ ls -lo

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List the filenames sorted by time modified (most recent first):
$ ls -lt
List ALL files (including hidden)
$ ls -a
List all the file links in the current folder - in the ouptut of ls each symbolic directory has l permission at the begining of the permission flags, so grep ^l will list only symbolic links:
$ ls -lR | grep ^l
A less cryptic method is to use find . -type l

Include a special character at the end that tells you what kind of file it is
$ ls -F
List .jpg files
$ ls *.jpg
Filenames beginning with 'a'
$ ls a*
Filenames containing 'att'
$ ls *att*
Long list + show all + follow symlinks w. dest
$ ls -lahL

List sorted by Size
$ ls -l | sort -n +4
or
$ ls -lrS
List all subdirectories
$ ls *

Loop through all the files in a folder, note the use of quotes to cope with filenames that include spaces:
$ ls | while read FILE; do echo '$FILE'; done

List all files, one per line, including subdirectories - using find
$ find ~/Documents/ -type f

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite” ~ William Blake

Related macOS commands:

chmod - Change access permissions.
chflags - Change a file or folder's flags.
find - Search for files that meet a desired criteria.
lsbom - List a bill of materials file.
quota - Display disk usage and limits.
rm - Remove files.
rmdir - Remove folder(s).
sort - Sort text files.
stat - Display the status of a file.
sticky - Sticky text and append-only directories.
wc - Print byte, word, and line counts.
Parsing the output of ls - wooledge.org