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Is it possible to obtain a comprehensive help / reference information about Clang using command line (e.g. man clang)?

While using GCC I usually use man gcc to find help / reference information (descriptions of command-line options, etc.). Most of the time the output of man gcc does contain help / reference information, which is present on https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.2.0/gcc/.

While using Clang I usually use man clang for the same purpose. However, usually the output of man clang doesn't contain the help / reference information, which is present on https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html.

Here is a comparison of the length of the output of man gcc vs. man clang:

$ man gcc | wc -l
18504

$ man clang | wc -l
436

Here we see that the output of man gcc is much bigger than the output of man clang.

Is it possible to obtain a comprehensive help / reference information about Clang using command line?

Extra:

  • I've tried info clang. However, it produces the same output than man clang.
  • The issue with https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html is than one needs to switch from the terminal to the web browser "back and forth". Perhaps, lynx https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html (then press / for search) can be the solution.
Solution

  • Here is a solution that works for me:

    $ alias "man_clang"="lynx https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html"

$ man_clang
<press '/' for search>