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I am trying to see the manual entry for c++ keywords like std::vector,std::set,std::map, iostream,std::size() e.t.c in terminal but it says, No manual entry for these commands. Even is show the same thing when i typed man iostream. g++ is installed in my computer.

Shravan40
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  • The man pages don't cover the C++ standard library, AFAIK. –  Nov 09 '14 at 01:10
  • I have seen, it do show result for STL as well as other C++ commands. In my case it's not even showing `man bool` `man namespace` too. – Shravan40 Nov 09 '14 at 01:14
  • It does show for some libraries. like stdio and stuff. but not everything is covered. – saruftw Nov 09 '14 at 01:16

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There is no man support for C++ language and its feature on Linux based machine. If you really want to work with the standard documentation online, you may refer cppreference

However you may also download cppreference the complete documentation in various format and work offline. I recommend that you should follow this and download complete documentation archive from below location:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:Archives

Mantosh Kumar
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To search for something within the man pages, use -k or --apropos, i.e. man -k "vector".

To find documentation on the C++ standard library, I recommend cppreference.com, any of the books written by Bjarne Stroustrup and the latest working draft of the C++ standard.

The man-pages scope does not encompass the C++ standard library. In particular, man man-pages (online version) says:

DESCRIPTION
        This  page describes the conventions that should be employed when writ‐
        ing man pages for the Linux  man-pages  project,  which  documents  the
        user-space API provided by the Linux kernel and the GNU C library. [..]

And goes on to describe the sections of the manual pages. You can also see these same sections in man man. For example, it might look like:

   Sections of the manual pages
       The manual Sections are traditionally defined as follows:

       1 Commands (Programs)
                 Those commands that can be executed by the user from within
                 a shell.

       2 System calls
                 Those functions which must be performed by the kernel.

       3 Library calls
                 Most of the libc functions.

       4 Special files (devices)
                 Files found in /dev.

       5 File formats and conventions
                 The format for /etc/passwd and other human-readable files.

       6 Games

       7 Overview, conventions, and miscellaneous
                 Overviews of various topics, conventions and protocols,
                 character set standards, and miscellaneous other things.

       8 System management commands
                 Commands like mount(8), many of which only root can
                 execute.