Question: I'm looking for the windows executable for the linux man (manual reader).

I tried googling around, but got frustrated with the kind of results it came up with, owing to 'man' being such a common phrase.

I got results that read "man executed in texas..". 

So I look to the SO community now. Any clues?

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Here's my need: I have Portable Git on windows. It has a bash windows binary. But when it tries to show me help for some commands, the poor thing complains that "there is no manual reader". So if I get a man binary, I'll place it in the bin/ directory and all will be hunky-dory.

Answer: 
assuming you have loaded and are using the [Windows Subsystem for Unix Applications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX#Subsystem_for_UNIX-based_Applications_.28SUA.29_and_separate_NFS) from a shell (I prefer the C shell) its in /usr/share/man. Just: 

```
   set MANPATH "/usr/share/man"

```

in your .cshrc or .login startup files and you will then be able use the command: 

```
   man 1 csh 

```

to get manual information on the "csh" command from manual set 1. 

hope this helps. 
 - Deck
If you are using Powershell 7+, then you can use the following command to get `man` like helpful documentation. For example, if you wanted more information on `dir`, you can use the following command within PS.

`Get-Help dir`

*"Displays information about PowerShell commands and concepts."*

Reference:

* [`Get-Help` Documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/get-help?view=powershell-7.2)