NAME

man, lookman, sig − print or find pages of this manual

SYNOPSIS

­man [ ­-ntpP ] [ ­section ...  ] ­title ... 

­lookman ­key ... 

­sig ­function ... 

DESCRIPTION

­Man locates and prints pages of this manual named ­title in the specified sections. ­Title is given in lower case.  Each ­section is a number; pages marked (2S), for example, belong to chapter 2.  If no ­section is specified, pages in all sections are printed.  Any name from the NAME section at the top of the page will serve as a title.

The options are:

­-n (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using nroff.

­-p Run proof(1) on the specified man pages.

­-P Run page(1) on the specified man pages.

­-t Run troff(1) and send its output to standard output.

­Lookman prints the names of all manual sections that contain all of the ­key words given on the command line. 

­Sig prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the function’s given on the command line.

FILES

­/sys/man/?/∗
­troff source for manual; this page is ­/sys/man/1/man

­/sys/man/?/INDEX
indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles

­/sys/lib/man/secindex
command to make an index for a given section

­/sys/lib/man/lookman/index
index for ­lookman

SOURCE

­/rc/bin/man
­/rc/bin/lookman

SEE ALSO

page(1), proof(1)

BUGS

The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals. 

There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date. 

Except for special cases, ­man doesn’t recognize things that should be run through ­tbl and/or eqn.

Plan 9  —  April 17, 2005