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- MAN USER COMMANDS 09-Jul-91
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- NAME
- man - display reference manual pages; find reference pages
- by keyword
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- SYNOPSIS
- man title
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- man -k keyword
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- DESCRIPTION
- Man displays information from the reference manuals. It can
- display complete manual pages that you select by title, or
- one-line summaries selected by keyword (-k option).
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- If no manual page is located, man prints an error message.
- The reference page sources are typically located in the
- AXsh:man directory.
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- OPTIONS
- -k keyword
- man prints out one-line summaries from the reference
- file (table of contents) that contain the given
- keyword.
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- FILES
- AXsh:man the standard manual directory
- AXsh:man/reference table of contents and keywords
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- SEE ALSO
- more
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- NOTES
- The -k option uses the AXsh:man/reference file . It searches
- for partial strings too , so no use to use wildcards , they
- are treated as normal strings.
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- AUTHOR
- Pasi 'Albert' Ojala, E-mail: albert@cs.tut.fi
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