man
options
The man
program supports the following options.
man
searches
for manual pages. The supplied path must be a colon `:' separated
list of directories. This search path may also be set using the
environment variable `MANPATH'. The subdirectories to be searched,
and their search order, is specified by the `_subdir' line in the
man
configuration file.
man
searches
for manual pages. The supplied path must be a colon `:' separated
list of directories. These directories will be searched before the
standard directories or the directories specified using the `-M'
option or the `MANPATH' environment variable. The subdirectories
to be searched, and their search order, is specified by the `_subdir'
line in the man
configuration file.
man
to update the formatted manual page if either no
formatted page exists, or if the corresponding unformatted page is
newer. If this option is used, there is no need to run the
catman.pl
perl script.
man
would display
for the specified section and name combination.
man
invocationSynopsis:
man [OPTIONS]... [SECTION] [KEYWORD]...
man 5 man.conf
Show the man.conf manual page from section 5.
man -k chown
Print out all one-line summaries matching chown
from the
whatis database.
man -M /usr/man ls
Show the man page for ls located in /usr/man.
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