.TH MAN 1 "18 January 1983"
man \- find manual information by keywords; print out the manual
is a program which gives information from the programmers manual.
It can be asked for one line descriptions of commands specified by
name, or for all commands whose description contains any of a set of
keywords. It can also provide on-line access to the sections of the
prints out a one line synopsis of each manual sections whose
listing in the table of contents contains that keyword.
and a list of file names, \fIman\fR attempts to locate manual
sections related to those files, printing out the table of contents
lines for those sections.
formats a specified set of manual pages.
If a section specifier is given
looks in the that section of the manual for the given
is an arabic section number (3 for instance). The number may followed by
a single letter classifier (1g for instance)
indicating a graphics program in section 1. If
searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands
over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first section
If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag
to crush out useless blank lines,
to create proper underlines for different terminals, and through
to stop after each page on the screen.
a control-D to scroll 11 more lines when the output stops.
to arrange for the specified section to be
to a suitable raster output device; see
more(1), ul(1), whereis(1), catman(8)
.IP "Usage: man [ section ] name ..." 5
.IP "or: man -k keyword ..." 5
.IP "or: man -f file ..." 5
This is the standard memory jogger message you get to tell you how to
command when you type it with no arguments.
.IP "But what do you want from section \fIsection\fP?" 5
You didn't supply enough arguments to the
command. Typing the command in the form of
that is, just a section number and no title, generates this message.
.IP "No manual entry for \fItitle\fP." 5
There is no entry for the specified
in any section of the manual.
.IP "No entry for \fItitle\fP in section \fIsection\fP of the manual." 5
There is no entry for the specified
You used the -k option, asking for anything appropriate to a title, but
forgot to supply the title.
.IP "\fItitle\fP: nothing apropriate" 5
command cannot find anything appropriate to the specified
as specified with the -k option.
You used the -f option, asking for the header line for a title, but
forgot to supply the title.
.IP "\fItitle\fP: not found" 5
command cannot find the specified
as specified with the -f option.
.IP "Can't chdir to /usr/man." 5
Some kind of problem in the system. The
command needs to change directory to the
directory to do its job, and was unable to do so for some reason.
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter
However, on a typewriter some information is necessarily lost.