NAME

psman − display reference manual pages; find reference pages by keyword

SYNOPSIS

psman [section] title
psman −k keyword

DESCRIPTION

psman displays information from the reference manuals.  It can display complete manual pages that you select by title. It can display one-line summaries selected by keyword (−k). 

When −k is not specified, psman formats a specified manual page by title. A section, when given, applies to the title that follows it on the command line.  psman looks in the indicated section of the manual for the title. section should be a digit.  If section is omitted, psman searches all reference sections (giving preference to commands over functions) and prints the first manual page it finds.  If no manual page is located, psman prints an error message. 

The following line instructs psman to look in section 8 of the reference manual for the ypwhich(8) manual page:

babylon%  psman 8 ypwhich

If the NeWS server is not available psman formats for a teletype and pipes its output through more(1). Otherwise, psman formats for a typesetter and pipes its output through psview(1).

OPTIONS

−k keyword ...
psman prints out one-line summaries from the whatis database (table of contents) that contain any of the given keywords.

ENVIRONMENT

MANPATH If set, its value overrides /usr/man:$NEWSHOME/man as the default search path. 

SEE ALSO

cat(1V), col(1V), eqn(1), more(1), nroff(1), tbl(1), troff(1), whatis(1), man(7), catman(8)

Sun Release 4.1  —  Last change: 11 July 1986