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How do I access specific sections of man pages?

Put the section number in front of the item you want to reference. For example, to access the sysctl function from the library section, you can write:
man 3 sysctl
and to access the sysctl tool from the system administrator's section, you would write:
man 8 sysctl

To add to what Jason said: if you're not sure what section something is in, you can also see all of the man pages for a given topic by typing
man -a topic
This is useful for topics such as printf, for which there is both a command and a C function that do similar things.

use the -s flag, for example:
man -s 2 read
you might like to look at
man intro
to get an idea of what's where.
HTH.
cheers,
Rob

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What is the -X flag mean in wget? [closed]

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In the documentation it says:
-X list
But what does it actually mean, when i call.
wget -X GET https://www.google.com
Can anybody explain please?
From the man page:
-X list
--exclude-directories=list
Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude from download. Elements of list may contain wildcards.

What is the use of -i with curl command [closed]

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Used to check if the index (indices) exists or not. For example:
curl -XHEAD -i 'http://localhost:9200/twitter'
The HTTP status code indicates if the index exists or not. A 404 means it does not exist, and 200 means it does.
What is the use of -i option in above example?
This is related to cURL, I suppose. So it means it should be written in documentation:
Different protocols provide different ways of getting detailed
information about specific files/documents. To get curl to show
detailed information about a single file, you should use -I/--head
option. It displays all available info on a single file for HTTP and
FTP. The HTTP information is a lot more extensive.
Or alternatively in here:
-i, --include
(HTTP) Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-header includes
things like server-name, date of the document, HTTP-version and
more...

Perl eBay::API passing a listing title to get the category [closed]

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I'm wondering if, using Perl's eBay::API, there is a way to pass the title of a potential listing and return a category recommendation?
For example, if I entered "Lapierre Zesty 914 2013" it would return something like
"Sporting Goods > Cycling > Bikes" or perhaps a set of possibilities?
I started looking at http://search.cpan.org/~tkeefer/eBay-API-0.25/, but there are so many modules, I hoped someone could point me at the right one...
I'm searching eBay.co.uk. If eBay::API doens't do it, but something else does (in Perl), please do say.
On http://search.cpan.org/~tkeefer/eBay-API-0.25/, find the "Other tools" link. There's a search function so you can find things in all of the distribution files. Looking for keywords such as "suggested" often lead you in the right direction. :)
Of course, two minutes after asking, I found it: GetSuggestedCategories does the trick.

Writing to a Wiki [closed]

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I need to write a script that writes (appends) data to an internal wiki that isn't public (needs username and password but unencrypted, http not https). The script can be a shell script, a Perl script, or even a Java application (last resort). Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if any additional information is needed.
Right now, I'm only able to read from the wiki using LWP Perl library using the getprint($url) function.
Thanks
If it's truly MediaWiki, then just use MediaWiki::API.

"wget --domains" not helping.. what am I doing wrong? [closed]

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I'm attempting to use wget to recursively grab only the .jpg files from a particular website, with a view to creating an amusing screensaver for myself. Not such a lofty goal really.
The problem is that the pictures are hosted elsewhere (mfrost.typepad.com), not on the main domain of the website (www.cuteoverload.com).
I have tried using "-D" to specified the allowed domains, but sadly no cute jpgs have been forthcoming. How could I alter the line below to make this work?
wget -r -l2 -np -w1 -D www.cuteoverload.com,mfrost.typepad.com -A.jpg -R.html.php.gif www.cuteoverload.com/
Thanks.
An examination of wget's man page[1] says this about -D:
Set domains to be followed. domain-list is a comma-separated list of domains. Note that it does not turn on -H.
This advisory about -H looks interesting:
Enable spanning across hosts when doing recursive retrieving.
So you need merely to add the -H flag to your invocation.
(Having done this, looks like all the images are restricted to mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/2008/12/07 and mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/2008/12/08).
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[1] Although wget's primary reference manual is in info format.