NAME

man − print entries in this manual

SYNOPSIS

/bin/man [ options ] [ section ] titles

DESCRIPTION

Man locates and prints the entry of this manual named title in the specified section. (For historical reasons, the word “page” is often used as a synonym for “entry” in this context.)  The title is entered in lower case.  The section number may not have a letter suffix.  If no section is specified, the whole manual is searched for title and all occurrences of it are printed.  Options and their meanings are:

−t Typeset the entry in the default format (8.5′′×11′′). 

−s Typeset the entry in the small format (6′′×9′′). 

−T4014 Display the typeset output on a Tektronix 4014 terminal using tc(1).

−Ttek Same as −T4014. 

−Tst Print the typeset output on the MHCC STARE facility (see gcat(1C)).

−Tvp Print the typeset output on a Versatec printer using vpr(1); this option is not available at all UNIX sites. 

−Tterm Format the entry using nroff(1) and print it on the standard output (usually, the terminal); term is the terminal type (see term(7) and the explanation below); for a list of recognized values of term, type help term2.  The default value of term is 450. 

−w Print on the standard output only the path names of the entries, relative to /usr/man, or to the current directory for −d option. 

−d Search the current directory rather than /usr/man; requires the full file name (e.g., cu.1c, rather than just cu). 

−12 Indicates that the manual entry is to be produced in 12-pitch.  May be used when $TERM (see below) is set to one of 300, 300s, 450, and 1620.  (The pitch switch on the DASI 300 and 300s terminals must be manually set to 12 if this option is used.) 

−c Causes man to invoke col(1); note that col(1) is invoked automatically by man unless term is one of 300, 300s, 450, 37, 4000A, 382, 4014, tek, 1620, and X. 

−y Causes man to use the non-compacted version of the macros. 

The above options are mutually exclusive, except that the −s option may be used in conjunction with the first four −T options above.  Any other options are passed to troff(1), nroff(1), or the man(7) macro package.

When using nroff(1), man examines the environment variable $TERM (see environ(7)) and attempts to select options to nroff(1), as well as filters, that adapt the output to the terminal being used. The −Tterm option overrides the value of $TERM; in particular, one should use −Tlp when sending the output of man to a line printer. 

Section may be changed before each title.

As an example:

man man

would reproduce on the terminal this entry, as well as any other entries named man that may exist in other sections of the manual, e.g., man(7).

If the first line of the input for an entry consists solely of the string:

′\" x

where x is any combination of the three characters c, e, and t, and where there is exactly one blank between the double quote (") and x, then man will preprocess its input through the appropriate combination of cw(1), eqn(1) or neqn(1), and tbl(1), respectively.

FILES

/usr/man/man[1-8]/∗
/usr/man/local/man[1-8]/∗

SEE ALSO

cw(1), eqn(1), gcat(1C), tbl(1), tc(1), troff(1), environ(7), man(7), term(7). 

BUGS

All entries are supposed to be reproducible either on a typesetter or on a terminal.  However, on a terminal some information is necessarily lost.