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MAN(1)							      General Commands Manual							    MAN(1)

NAME
man - print sections of this manual SYNOPSIS
man [ option ... ] [ chapter ] title ... DESCRIPTION
Man locates and prints the section of this manual named title in the specified chapter. (In this context, the word `page' is often used as a synonym for `section'.) The title is entered in lower case. The chapter number does not need a letter suffix. If no chapter is speci- fied, the whole manual is searched for title and all occurrences of it are printed. Options and their meanings are: -t Phototypeset the section using troff(1). -n Print the section on the standard output using nroff(1). -k Display the output on a Tektronix 4014 terminal using troff(1) and tc(1). -e Appended or prefixed to any of the above causes the manual section to be preprocessed by neqn or eqn(1); -e alone means -te. -w Print the path names of the manual sections, but do not print the sections themselves. (default) Copy an already formatted manual section to the terminal, or, if none is available, act as -n. It may be necessary to use a filter to adapt the output to the particular terminal's characteristics. Further options, e.g. to specify the kind of terminal you have, are passed on to troff(1) or nroff. Options and chapter may be changed before each title. For example: man man would reproduce this section, as well as any other sections named man that may exist in other chapters of the manual, e.g. man(7). FILES
/usr/man/man?/* /usr/man/cat?/* SEE ALSO
nroff(1), eqn(1), tc(1), man(7) BUGS
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on a phototypesetter or on a terminal. However, on a terminal some information is neces- sarily lost. MAN(1)

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MAN(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    MAN(1)

NAME
man -- display online manual documentation pages SYNOPSIS
man [-adho] [-t | -w] [-M manpath] [-P pager] [-S mansect] [-m arch[:machine]] [-p [eprtv]] [mansect] page ... man -f keyword ... man -k keyword ... DESCRIPTION
The man utility finds and displays online manual documentation pages. If mansect is provided, man restricts the search to the specific sec- tion of the manual. The sections of the manual are: 1. FreeBSD General Commands Manual 2. FreeBSD System Calls Manual 3. FreeBSD Library Functions Manual 4. FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 5. FreeBSD File Formats Manual 6. FreeBSD Games Manual 7. FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual 8. FreeBSD System Manager's Manual 9. FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual Options that man understands: -M manpath Forces a specific colon separated manual path instead of the default search path. See manpath(1). Overrides the MANPATH environment variable. -P pager Use specified pager. Defaults to ``less -sR'' if color support is enabled, or ``more -s''. Overrides the MANPAGER environment vari- able, which in turn overrides the PAGER environment variable. -S mansect Restricts manual sections searched to the specified colon delimited list. Defaults to ``1:8:2:3:n:4:5:6:7:9:l''. Overrides the MANSECT environment variable. -a Display all manual pages instead of just the first found for each page argument. -d Print extra debugging information. Repeat for increased verbosity. Does not display the manual page. -f Emulate whatis(1). -h Display short help message and exit. -k Emulate apropos(1). -m arch[:machine] Override the default architecture and machine settings allowing lookup of other platform specific manual pages. See IMPLEMENTATION NOTES for how this option changes the default behavior. Overrides the MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE environment variables. -o Force use of non-localized manual pages. See IMPLEMENTATION NOTES for how locale specific searches work. Overrides the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables. -p [eprtv] Use the list of given preprocessors before running nroff(1) or troff(1). Valid preprocessors arguments: e eqn(1) p pic(1) r refer(1) t tbl(1) v vgrind(1) Overrides the MANROFFSEQ environment variable. -t Send manual page source through troff(1) allowing transformation of the manual pages to other formats. -w Display the location of the manual page instead of the contents of the manual page. IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
Locale Specific Searches The man utility supports manual pages in different locales. The search behavior is dictated by the first of three environment variables with a nonempty string: LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG. If set, man will search for locale specific manual pages using the following logic: lang_country.charset lang.charset en.charset For example, if LC_ALL is set to ``ja_JP.eucJP'', man will search the following paths when considering section 1 manual pages in /usr/share/man: /usr/share/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1 /usr/share/man/ja.eucJP/man1 /usr/share/man/en.eucJP/man1 /usr/share/man/man1 Platform Specific Searches The man utility supports platform specific manual pages. The search behavior is dictated by the -m option or the MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE environment variables. For example, if MACHINE_ARCH is set to ``i386'' and MACHINE is set to ``pc98'', man will search the following paths when considering section 4 manual pages in /usr/share/man: /usr/share/man/man4/pc98 /usr/share/man/man4/i386 /usr/share/man/man4 Displaying Specific Manual Files The man utility also supports displaying a specific manual page if passed a path to the file as long as it contains a '/' character. ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of man: LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG Used to find locale specific manual pages. Valid values can be found by running the locale(1) command. See IMPLEMENTATION NOTES for details. Influenced by the -o option. MACHINE_ARCH, MACHINE Used to find platform specific manual pages. If unset, the output of ``sysctl hw.machine_arch'' and ``sysctl hw.machine'' is used respectively. See IMPLEMENTATION NOTES for details. Corresponds to the -m option. MANPATH Used to find the location of the manual files. See manpath(1) for additional information. Corresponds to the -M option. MANROFFSEQ Used to determine the preprocessors for the manual source before running nroff(1) or troff(1). If unset, defaults to tbl(1). Corresponds to the -p option. MANSECT Restricts manual sections searched to the specified colon delimited list. Corresponds to the -S option. MANWIDTH If set to a numeric value, used as the width manpages should be displayed. Otherwise, if set to a special value ``tty'', and output is to a terminal, the pages may be displayed over the whole width of the screen. MANCOLOR If set, enables color support. MANPAGER Program used to display files. If unset, and color support is enabled, ``less -sR'' is used. If unset, and color support is disabled, then PAGER is used. If that has no value either, ``more -s'' is used. FILES
/etc/man.conf System configuration file. /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf Local configuration files. SEE ALSO
apropos(1), intro(1), locale(1), manpath(1), nroff(1), troff(1), whatis(1), intro(2), intro(3), intro(4), intro(5), man.conf(5), intro(6), intro(7), intro(8), intro(9) BSD
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