[VvR-Ox]

What about: man foo | grep bar

Then you only get the line with "bar" in it. (append -C 1 at the end to get 1 line before and 1 after the term you grepped for).

And of course you can pimp your terminal experience by using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as it ships with autosuggestions and other really nice features. (Beware that it will not provide 100% POSIX compliance but if that's an issue you can use ZSH or pimp your bash as well).

Then there is other kind of man pages like TLDR (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) which is curated by community and quite awesome ;-)

[sjmulder]

> What about: man foo | grep bar

I prefer to search from within the pager to see the option description in context:

    man httpd
    /-n

Then 'n' for the next hit or 'N' for the previous, like vi. This is for 'less' in general, not just man.