search_man_pages

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Find manuals by topic, command prefix or literal option such as --recursive. Required field: query, including when continuing a search. All other fields are optional. Example: {"query":"compress files"}. Read a result with get_man_page(page_id=...). Returns context-preserving excerpts and page_id values for get_man_page. Aliases of the same document are grouped. Without product, an exact manual-name match selects the newest upstream version per package/name/section across active OS catalogs. Equal versions use deterministic distro ties; unrelated implementations stay separate. Topic/prefix searches use the newest numbered release per product for architecture/locale. Pass os_version=null to search all releases without collapsing distro variants. An explicit release pins OS selection. Current package builds are searched by default. Set historical=true to include readable older package versions within the selected OS releases, without automatic upstream-version selection. Responses name the actual OS targets searched. Repeat the query/filters with next_page to continue; null means finished or the configured page cap was reached.