Understanding the Absence of GCC Man Pages

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└─$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc

└─$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
  1. Missing Man Page: The man gcc not returning any result could indicate that the corresponding man page for gcc is not installed on your system.

  2. Compiler Exists: The which gcc command confirms that the gcc compiler does exist.

  3. Installing Man Page: To obtain the man page for gcc, you may need to install a documentation or manual package for gcc. In many Linux distributions, these packages are often split off and provided separately.

  4. Installation Method: On a Debian or Ubuntu system, you could use sudo apt-get install gcc-doc to install. On a Red Hat or CentOS system, you could use sudo yum install gcc-doc to install.