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NAME
man, lookman, sig - print or find pages of this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ -bnpPStw ] [ section ... ] title ...
lookman key ...
sig function ...
DESCRIPTION
Man locates and prints pages of this manual named title in the speci‐
fied sections. Title is given in lower case. Each section is a num‐
ber; pages marked (2S), for example, belong to chapter 2. If no sec‐
tion is specified, pages in all sections are printed. Any name from
the NAME section at the top of the page will serve as a title.
The options are:
-n (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using nroff.
-b Print the pages using nroff and send them to plumber(4) for dis‐
play in the editor.
-p Run proof(1) on the specified man pages.
-P Run page(1) on the specified man pages.
-S Do not search the manual indices for the names. Only print
pages whose file names match the names.
-t Run troff(1) and send its output to standard output.
-w Print the names of the man page source files.
Lookman prints the names of all manual sections that contain all of the
key words given on the command line.
Sig prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the functions given on
the command line.
FILES
/sys/man/?/*
troff source for manual; this page is /sys/man/1/man
/sys/man/?/INDEX
indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles
/sys/lib/man/secindex
command to make an index for a given section
/sys/lib/man/lookman/index
index for lookman
SOURCE
/rc/bin/man
/rc/bin/lookman
SEE ALSO
page(1), proof(1)
BUGS
The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on
text terminals.
There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
Except for special cases, man doesn't recognize things that should be
run through tbl and/or eqn.
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