On my ML installation, man md5
does indeed show the MD5(1)
man page.
It's possible some local software installation or configuration is causing the display of a man page for dgst
instead, though (which appears to be part of OpenSSL.)
A few things to check:
Do you have the MANPATH
environment variable set in your shell? It could be looking in an alternative directory for manpages before hitting the system manpages. MANPATH
does not appear to be set by default.
Are there alternative MANPATH
directives in /private/etc/man.conf
? My system has
MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANPATH /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH /usr/X11/man
Has /usr/share/man/man1/md5.1
been replaced by a symlink to another man page that could be producing the dgst
content? Try
$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/md5.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12332 Nov 16 2012 /usr/share/man/man1/man.1
If /usr/share/man/man1/md5.1
has not been changed, then you can read its content specifically this way:
$ man /usr/share/man/man1/md5.1