MAN(1) MAN(1)
NAME
man - display entries from this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ options ] [ section ] title ...
DESCRIPTION
The man program locates and prints each 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
lowercase characters. The section number may have a letter
suffix. When section is omitted, searches the whole manual
for title and prints all occurrences of it. The options and
their meanings are:
-Tterm Print the entry as appropriate for terminal type
term. 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 pathnames
of the entries, relative to /usr/catman, or to
the current directory for -d option.
-d Search the current directory rather than
/usr/catman; requires the full filename (e.g.,
cu.1c, rather than just cu).
-c 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.
The man program examines the environment variable $TERM (see
environ(5)) and attempts to select options that adapt the
output to the terminal being used. The -Tterm option
overrides the value of $TERM; this may be used when sending
the output of man to a line printer.
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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(5).
FILES
/usr/catman/?_man/man[1-8][a-
z]?/* Preformatted manual entries
SEE ALSO
environ(5), term(5).
CAUTION
The man command prints manual entries that were formatted by
nroff when your operating system was installed. Entries are
originally formatted with terminal type 37 and are printed
using the correct terminal filters as derived from the
-Tterm and $TERM settings.
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