MAN(1)MAN(1)
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 specified
sections.
Title
is given in lower case.
Each
section
is a number;
pages marked (2S), for example,
belong to chapter 2.
If no
section
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 display 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.