Robert P. J. Day wrote:
however, i recently installed the package
"containers-common", which
installed (among other things) the single man page file under
/usr/share/man/man5:
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz
with that installed, both of the following commands work fine and
generate the same output:
$ man 5 containers-storage.conf
$ man 5 storage.conf
but i see no "shortcut" file in that directory to support the second
form, so i'm assuming there is some other mechanism by which this can
be done, i just don't know what it is. thoughts?
AFAIK, man finds 'storage.conf' because it is the title of
the man page. So it's not actually an alias.
$ zcat /usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz | head -n1
.TH "storage.conf" "5" " Container Storage Configuration
File" "Dan Walsh" "May 2017"
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Todd