term% cat index.txt 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 have 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:
-q Copy an already formatted manual section to the terminal or, if
none is available, act as -n. If the standard output is a ter‐
minal, underline(1) the output. This is the default option.
-t Place typesetting instructions on the standard output using
troff(1).
-n Print the section on the standard output using nroff.
-w Print the path names of the manual sections, but do not print
the sections themselves.
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 be‐
fore each title.
EXAMPLE
man man
reproduces 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/spool/man/∗
SEE ALSO
troff(1), eqn(1), tc(1), man(7)
BUGS
The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on
terminals.
You can't ask for manual pages named 1 through 9.
Certain manual pages (those that need eqn ) terminate the output under
option -t, causing any following pages to be lost.
MAN(1)