How to Run a “Dot 1” File in Linux Terminal

Question

I need to run this file in the terminal (linux).

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/ncbi-seg.1.html

It comes as a ".1" file. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Something like this (it is, after all, a man-page):

nroff -man ncbi-seg.1 |less

Better, if the program is installed (not just a ".1" file):

man ncbi-seg

(section "1" is the default).

A comment notes that (at least on Linux), the man program accepts an actual pathname, eg,

man ./ncbi-seg.1

and referring to my followup, I made this script, qm in June 1995:

#!/bin/sh
tbl $* | nroff -man |less

Since then, most (not all) versions of man have incorporated the fix to automatically run tbl .