man(1) —
NAME
man − print entries in this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ options ] [ section ] titles
DESCRIPTION
The man command 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 lowercase. 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. 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.
−w Print on the standard output only the path names of the entries, relative to /usr/man, or to the current directory for the −d option.
−d Search the current directory rather than /usr/catman; this requires the full file name (e.g., cu.1c, rather than just cu).
−c Cause man to invoke col(1); note that col(1) is invoked automatically by man if the INTERACTIVE Text Processing Workbench is installed.
The man command 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; in particular, one should use −Tlp when sending the output of man to a line printer.
The section may be changed before each title.
As an example:
man man
would display this entry, as well as any other entries named man that may exist in other sections of the manual, on the terminal.
FILES
/usr/catman/? man/man[1-8]* Preformatted manual entries
SEE ALSO
WARNING
The man command prints manual entries that were preformatted using nroff. Entries are originally formatted with terminal type 37, and are printed using the correct terminal filters as derived from the −Tterm and $TERM settings.
\*U — Version 1.0