MAN
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NAME
man - print sections of this manual
SYNOPSIS
man
[ option ... ] [ chapter ] title ...
DESCRIPTION
Man
locates and prints the section of this manual named
title
in the specified
chapter.
(In this context, the word `page' is often used as a synonym for `section'.)
The
title
is entered in lower case.
The
chapter
number does not need a letter suffix.
If no
chapter
is specified, the whole manual is searched for
title
and all occurrences of it are printed.
Options
and their meanings are:
- -t
-
Phototypeset the section using
troff(1).
- -n
-
Print the section on the standard output using
nroff(1).
- -k
-
Display the output on a Tektronix 4014 terminal using
troff(1)
and
tc(1).
- -e
-
Appended or prefixed to any of the above
causes the manual section to be preprocessed by
neqn
or
eqn(1);
-e
alone means
-te.
- -w
-
Print the path names of the manual sections,
but do not print the sections themselves.
- (default)
-
Copy an already formatted manual section to the terminal,
or, if none is available, act as
-n.
It may be necessary to use a filter to adapt the output to
the
particular terminal's characteristics.
Further
options,
e.g. to specify the kind of terminal you have,
are passed on to
troff(1)
or
nroff.
Options
and
chapter
may be changed before each
title.
For example:
-
man man
would reproduce this section,
as well as any other sections named
man
that may exist in other chapters of the manual, e.g.
man(7).
FILES
/usr/man/man?/*
/usr/man/cat?/*
SEE ALSO
nroff(1),
eqn(1),
tc(1),
man(7)
BUGS
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on
a phototypesetter or on a terminal.
However, on a terminal some information is necessarily lost.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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