3 man \- display online manual pages
14 displays the online manual pages for the specified titles in the specified
15 sections. The sections are as follows:
21 Generic commands such as
29 Low level routines that directly interface with the kernel.
34 Higher level C language subroutines.
45 Formats of files handled by various utilities and subroutines.
50 It's not \s-2UNIX\s+2 without an adventure game.
55 Macro packages, miscellaneous tidbits.
60 Commands for the System Administrator.
65 Larger manuals explaining some commands in more detail.
67 (If you are new to MINIX 3 then try
69 it will show you around the file system and give you many pointers to other
74 will try the following files in a manual page directory for the command
88 Files in the man[1\-8] directories are formatted with
90 Those in man9 are formatted with
92 Files in the cat? directories are preformatted. Files with names ending in
94 are decompressed first with
98 The end result is presented to the user using a pager if displaying on
101 For each manual page directory in its search path,
103 will first try all the subdirectories of the manual page directory for
104 the files above, and then the directory itself. The directory
106 contains the standard manual pages, with manual pages for optional
107 packages installed in a subdirectory of /usr/man, with the same
108 structure as /usr/man. The directory
110 contains manual pages for locally added software. By default
111 /usr/local/man is searched first, then /usr/man.
113 A title is not simply used as a filename, because several titles may
114 refer to the same manual page. Each manual page directory contains a
115 database of titles in the
117 file that is created by
119 from the NAME sections of all the manual pages. A title is searched in
120 this database and the first title on a whatis line is used as a filename.
122 The options may be interspersed with the titles to search, and take effect
123 for the titles after them.
126 Show all the manual pages or one line descriptions with the given title in
127 all the specified sections in all the manual directories in the search path.
128 Normally only the first page found is shown.
133 to format manual pages (default).
138 to format manual pages.
143 to show a one line description of the title from the
150 to show all the one line descriptions of the title anywhere in the
156 Quietly check if all requested manual pages exist. No output, no errors,
162 as the search path for manual directories.
166 is the section number the page is to be found in, or a comma separated
167 list of sections to use. Normally all sections are searched. The
168 search is always in numerical order no matter what your section list looks
169 like. A single digit is treated as a section number without the
171 for compatibility with BSD-style
177 This is a colon separated list of directories to search for manual
179 .BR /usr/local/man:/usr/man .
182 The program to use to display the manual page or one line descriptions on
183 the screen page by page. By default
201 Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)