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30 .\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
37 .Nd display the on-line manual pages
38 .Pq aka Dq Em man pages
41 .Oo Fl acw Ns \&| Ns Fl h Oc
62 utility displays the manual pages named on the command line.
63 Its options are as follows:
64 .Bl -tag -width indent
66 Display all of the man pages for a specified
71 (Normally, only the first man page found is displayed.)
75 instead of the default configuration file.
76 This permits users to configure their own man environment.
79 for a description of the contents of this file.
81 Copy the man page to the standard output instead of using
84 This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device.
88 lines of the requested man pages.
89 For commands, this is typically the command line usage information.
90 For library functions, this usually contains the required include
91 files and function prototypes.
93 Display the header lines for any man pages matching
98 Override the list of standard directories which
100 searches for man pages.
105 separated list of directories.
106 This search path may also be set using the environment variable
108 The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
115 Augment the list of standard directories which
117 searches for man pages.
122 separated list of directories.
123 These directories will be searched before the standard directories or
124 the directories specified using the
128 environment variable.
129 The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
136 Print the search path for the manual pages.
138 Restrict the directories that
140 will search to the specified section.
143 configuration file (see
145 specifies the possible
147 values that are currently available.
149 Display only man pages that have the specified string in the directory
150 part of their filenames.
151 This allows the man page search process criteria to be
152 narrowed without having to change the MANPATH or
156 List the pathnames of the man pages which
158 would display for the specified
167 option is not specified,
168 there is more than one argument,
171 option is not used, and the first argument is a valid section, then that
172 argument will be used as if specified by the
178 is given with a full path (beginning with
180 or a relative path that begins with
186 interprets it as a file specification, so that you can do
191 .Cm /cd/foo/bar.1.gz .
196 but does not match one of the above cases, then the
197 search path is used; this allows you to request
198 machine-specific man pages, such as
201 .Bl -tag -width MANPATHX
203 As some man pages are intended only for specific architectures,
205 searches any subdirectories,
206 with the same name as the current architecture,
207 in every directory which it searches.
208 Machine specific areas are checked before general areas.
209 The current machine type may be overridden by setting the environment
212 to the name of a specific architecture.
213 Machine-specific man pages may also be requested by
214 prepending the relevant subdirectory name to the page name,
218 The standard search path used by
220 may be overridden by specifying a path in the
222 environment variable.
223 The format of the path is a colon
225 separated list of directories.
226 The subdirectories to be searched as well as their search order
233 The pagination command used for writing the output.
236 environment variable is null or not set, the standard pagination program
241 .Bl -hang -width /etc/man.conf -compact
243 default man configuration file.
256 .\"and is expected to conform to
259 The on-line man pages are, by necessity, forgiving toward stupid
260 display devices, causing a few man pages to be not as nicely formatted
261 as their typeset counterparts.