1 .TH man 1 "Sept 2013" "hardcore-utils" \" -*- nroff -*-
3 man \- display on-line reference manuals
6 [\-w] [\-v|\-q] [section-number] page ...
8 This document describes
11 is the system's manual pager. Each
13 argument given is the name of a program, file, function system call or other
14 system feature which should be documented in the systems manual.
16 will try and locate and display a manual page for each
18 operand given. If a numeric
20 operand is given, then
22 will only look in that section of the manual, rather than all the sections
25 Here is a list of the manual sections:-
27 1 Program or shell commands
29 2 System calls in the kernel
31 3 Functions in a the libraries
33 4 Special device files
41 8 System administration programs
45 Unlike other man program, this one does not use an external formatter such
46 as nroff, as we currently do not have one. It supports a subset of nroff
47 -man features which are sufficient for displaying ELKS manual pages.
51 Do not display any manual pages, but print the location of each one found.
54 Force verbose output. (default)
64 Display the manual page for ls, and the location of the manual page for cp
68 obeys the following environment variables.
71 A colon separated list of single digit section numbers indicating the sections
72 to be searched, and the search order.
75 A colon separated list of directories to search for a manual page tree.
78 The name of the program to be used to display the manual page.
81 A colon separated list of directories to search for commands including the
82 program specified by PAGER, and gzip and compress used to uncompress compressed
87 Completed successfully.
92 specified on no manual page found.
103 Al Riddoch (ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk) (this manpage)