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term% ls -F
term% pwd
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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 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.



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