man(1) man(1)
NAME
man - print entries in this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [-c] [-d] [-Tterm] [-w] [section] titles
DESCRIPTION
man 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 lower case. 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. Flag 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 path names
of the entries, relative to /usr/catman, or to
the current directory for -d flag option.
-d Search the current directory rather than
/usr/catman; requires the full file name (e.g.,
cu.1c, rather than just cu).
-c Causes man to 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.
man examines the environment variable $TERM, $PAGER (see
environ(5)) and attempts to select flag options that adapt
the output to the terminal being used. The $PAGER variable
is default to ``more'' if not set otherwise. User can select
``pg'' with the appropiate flag options. The -Tterm flag
option overrides the value of $TERM; in particular, one
should use -Tlp when sending the output of man to a line
printer.
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.
FILES
/usr/bin/man
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SEE ALSO
term(5).
CAVEAT
The man command prints manual entries that were formatted by
nroff when the UNIX® 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. Typesetting or other non-
standard printing of manual entries is not yet supported.
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