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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
4 | .\" | |
85f8dd5b | 5 | .\" @(#)man.1 6.7 (Berkeley) %G% |
7400223d | 6 | .\" |
b896fc7a | 7 | .TH MAN 1 "" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
9 | .SH NAME | |
79bea8b8 | 10 | man \- print out the manual |
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11 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
12 | .br | |
13 | .B man | |
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14 | [ |
15 | .B \- | |
16 | ] [ | |
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17 | .B -a |
18 | ] [ | |
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19 | .B \-M |
20 | .I path | |
21 | ] [ | |
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22 | section |
23 | ] | |
24 | title ... | |
25 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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26 | \fIMan\fP is the program which provides on-line access to the UNIX manual. |
27 | If a \fIsection\fP specifier is given, \fIman\fP looks in that section of | |
28 | the manual for the given \fItitle\fP(s). \fISection\fP is either an Arabic | |
29 | section number (``3'' for example), or one of the words ``local'', ``new,'' | |
30 | or ``old''. (The abbreviations ``l'', ``n'', and ``o'' are also allowed.) | |
31 | If \fIsection\fP is omitted, \fIman\fP searches all sections of the manual, | |
32 | giving preference to commands over library subroutines, and displays the | |
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33 | first manual page it finds, if any. If the \fI-a\fP option is supplied, |
34 | \fIman\fP displays all applicable manual pages. | |
7400223d | 35 | .PP |
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36 | Normally \fIman\fP checks in standard locations (/usr/man and /usr/local/man) |
37 | for manual information. This can be changed by supplying a search path (a | |
38 | la the Bourne shell) with the \fB-M\fP flag. The search path is a colon | |
39 | (``:'') separated list of directories in which \fIman\fP expects to find | |
40 | the standard manual subdirectories. This search path can also be set with | |
41 | the environmental variable \fIMANPATH\fP. | |
7400223d | 42 | .PP |
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43 | Since some manual pages are intended for use only on certain machines, |
44 | \fIman\fP only searches those directories applicable to the current | |
45 | machine. \fIMan\fP's determination of the current machine type can | |
46 | be overridden by setting the environmental variable \fIMACHINE\fP. | |
7400223d | 47 | .PP |
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48 | If the standard output is a teletype, and the \fB-\fP flag is not provided, |
49 | \fIman\fP uses \fImore\fP(1), or the pager provided by the environmental | |
50 | variable \fIPAGER\fP, to display the manual page. | |
09683da9 | 51 | .PP |
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52 | The FORTRAN version of section 3 of the manual may be specified by supplying |
53 | \fIman\fP with the \fIsection\fP ``3f''. Also, a specific section of the | |
54 | local manual may be specified by appending a number to the \fIsection\fP, | |
55 | i.e. ``l5'' would indicate section 5 of the local manual. | |
7400223d | 56 | .SH FILES |
b896fc7a | 57 | .nf |
79bea8b8 | 58 | .ta \w'/usr/local/man/man?/* 'u |
b896fc7a | 59 | /usr/man standard manual area |
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60 | /usr/man/cat?/* directories containing standard manual pages |
61 | /usr/local/man/cat?/* directories containing local manual pages | |
62 | /usr/src/man directories containing unformatted manual pages | |
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7400223d | 64 | .SH SEE\ ALSO |
79bea8b8 | 65 | apropos(1), more(1), whatis(1), whereis(1) |
7400223d | 66 | .SH BUGS |
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67 | The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the |
68 | phototypesetter or on a typewriter, however, on a typewriter, | |
69 | some information is necessarily lost. |