diff --git a/tests/man/man.sh b/tests/man/man.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..26423002
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/man/man.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+topdir=`dirname $0`/..
+. $topdir/shared.sh
+
+initvariables $0
+
+(
+  recollq '"ifconfig utility"'
+
+)  2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
+
+
+diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
+
+checkresult
diff --git a/tests/man/man.txt b/tests/man/man.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..147ff9bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/man/man.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+1 results
+text/x-man	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/man/ifconfig.8.gz]	[ifconfig.8.gz]	18576	bytes