MAN(1)
NAME
man − find manual information by keywords; print out the manual
USAGE
man −k keyword ...
man −f file ...
man [ − ] [ section ] title ...
DESCRIPTION
Man displays reference manual entries on your screen. It can also display a one-line description of a specific command, or for all commands whose description contains any of a set of keywords.
If you indicate a particular manual section, man examines that section for the given titles. Section is an Arabic section number (e.g., 3), optionally followed by a single-letter classifier (e.g., 3m). If you omit the section argument, man searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first entry it finds.
When the standard output is connected to a Display Manager pad (the normal case when you are using a DOMAIN node), man displays the manual page in a window. You may scroll through the text as necessary. When you are finished reading the manual entry, close the window by putting the cursor in the window and typing ↑N.
If the standard output is a TTY, or if you specify a dash (−) as an argument, man pipes its output through cat(1) with the −s option to crush out useless blank lines. It then processes the output through ul(1) to create proper underlines for different terminals, and finally through more(1).
OPTIONS
−k keyword ... Print a one-line synopsis of each entry whose listing in the table of contents contains the specified keyword.
−f file ... Locate manual sections related to the specified file, printing out the table of contents lines for the appropriate sections.
CAUTIONS
Entries may be reproduced on a typesetter or on a typewriter device. However, if you use a typewriter device, some information is necessarily lost.
An alternate version of man exists in /usr/bin. It is a Shell script that pipes the formatted files to the standard output.
FILES
/usr/man/man?/* unformatted manual entries
/usr/man/cat?/* formatted manual entries