use File::stat;
mkdir "duplicates" unless -e "duplicates";
for $dir (<man*>){
	unless(-e "duplicates/$dir"){
		mkdir "duplicates/$dir";
	}
	($id)=($dir=~/man(.*)/);
	for(<$dir/*.$id>){
		if(-e "$_.gz"){
			$st=lstat($_);
			$gz=lstat("$_.gz");
			if($st->mtime < $gz->mtime ){
				print "$_ older than $_.gz \n";
				rename $_, "duplicates/$_";
			}
		}
	}
}

larik@hustler mann $ ls -al widget.n.gz Widget.n 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3568 Dec 13 17:39 Widget.n
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2528 Dec 13 17:39 widget.n.gz

for f in $(find /usr/share/man -type f \! -iname '*.gz'); do
   lc=`echo $f | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
   ( [ -e ${f}.gz ] || [ -e ${lc}.gz ] ) && rm $f 
done

Here's a tip -- instead of posting scripts or instructions that removes files, use 'mv ... ~/Trash/' instead, so at least there's a way to undo it if it goes wrong! I haven't tried this myself, but I could imagine that some of the man pages listed in the attached script may not have come from a Tiger install, but perhaps from other tools.

I'd ask that macosxhints.com make this a policy, frankly. No 'rm' commands in published tips!

This command will give a list of the commands required to remove the old files:

If you are happy with the results, you can remove the "echo" to delete the files. I did just that on my machine and now I'm fine.

Thanks for this hint. I was wondering why man bash and Bwana were still showing the man page for bash version 2.05 instead of 3 (Bwana also required cleaning of its cache dir ~/Library/Caches).

Another correction, the -type f needs to go, lots of old symbolic links are missed otherwise.

That makes it

sudo find /usr/share/man -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec tar --absolute-names -rzvf ~/man.tgz {} \;

I should note that I had no problems running this command without leading sudo, so you may wish to omit that.

There might be a smarter way to first list all the files and then form the archive, but this only took 1 minute and 41 seconds.

If you ever need to restore: tar xzf ~/man.tgz will put them all back.

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sudo find /usr/share/man -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec tar --absolute-names -rzvf ~/man.tgz {} \;

sudo find /usr/share/man -type f -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec echo rm {} \;

sudo find /usr/share/man -type f -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec rm {} \;

tar cannot update compressed archives

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Actually I had the same problem as wscody where the man.tgz didn't show up. Turns out the z option that compresses the man pages was the problem. Maybe it is another fink conflict but I just bypassed it. The resulting man.tar file came out to about 40MB.

find /usr/share/man -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec /usr/bin/tar -rvPf ~/man.tar {} \;

Now that the man files are all backed up, I want to verify that I indeed have both the old and new manuals. For example, the bash manual should be for bash 3, not 2.05. The following tells me there are 2 bash manuals the bash.1 modified 30-Mar-2005 while the bash.1.gz is from 23-Sep-2007.

ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/bash.*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 228193 Mar 20 2005 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 70941 Sep 23 20:41 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz

Then, I did the following sequence, including the removal of the -type f as suggested by livanage.

sudo find /usr/share/man -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec echo rm {} \;

sudo find /usr/share/man -exec test -e {}.gz \; -exec rm {} \;

Now to verify that the bash.1 file is gone.

ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/bash.*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 70941 Sep 23 20:41 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz

And man now uses the correct page.

man -w bash

/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz

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hiedy hoo

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