man.1 (2023B)
1 .TH MAN 1 2 .SH NAME 3 man, lookman, sig \- print or find pages of this manual 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B man 6 [ 7 .B -hnpPtw 8 ] 9 [ 10 .I section ... 11 ] 12 [ 13 .B -- 14 ] 15 .I title ... 16 .PP 17 .B lookman 18 .I key ... 19 .PP 20 .B sig 21 .I function ... 22 .SH DESCRIPTION 23 .I Man 24 locates and prints pages of this manual named 25 .I title 26 in the specified 27 .IR sections . 28 .I Title 29 is given in lower case. 30 Each 31 .I section 32 is a number; 33 pages marked (2S), for example, 34 belong to chapter 2. 35 If no 36 .I section 37 is specified, pages 38 in all sections are printed. 39 Any name from the 40 .SM NAME 41 section at the top of the page will serve as a 42 .IR title . 43 .PP 44 The options are: 45 .TP 46 .B -h 47 Print the pages to HTML and send to a web browser with 48 .MR web (1) . 49 .TP 50 .B -n 51 (Default) 52 Print the pages on the standard output using 53 .IR nroff . 54 .TP 55 .B -p 56 Run 57 .MR proof (1) 58 on the specified man pages. 59 .TP 60 .B -P 61 Run 62 .MR page (1) 63 on the specified man pages. 64 .TP 65 .B -t 66 Run 67 .MR troff (1) 68 and send its output 69 to standard output. 70 .TP 71 .B -w 72 Print the file names for the pages. 73 .PD 74 .PP 75 .B Lookman 76 prints the names of all manual sections that contain 77 all of the 78 .I key 79 words given on the command line. 80 .PP 81 .B Sig 82 prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the 83 .IR function 's 84 given on the command line. 85 .SH FILES 86 .TP 87 .B \*9/man?/*.[0-9]* 88 .I troff 89 source for manual; this page is 90 .B \*9/man/man1/man.1 91 .TP 92 .B \*9/man?/*.html 93 HTML version of the manual 94 .TP 95 .B \*9/man/man?/INDEX 96 indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles 97 .TP 98 .B \*9/man/secindex 99 command to make an index for a given section 100 .TP 101 .B \*9/man/lookman.index 102 index for 103 .I lookman 104 .SH SOURCE 105 .B \*9/bin/man 106 .br 107 .B \*9/bin/lookman 108 .SH "SEE ALSO" 109 .MR page (1) , 110 .MR proof (1) 111 .SH BUGS 112 The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals. 113 .PP 114 There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date. 115 .PP 116 Except for special cases, 117 .I man 118 doesn't recognize things that should be run through 119 .I tbl 120 and/or 121 .IR eqn . 122 .PP 123 The HTML manual is not maintained automatically. 124 To update it: 125 .IP 126 .EX 127 cd \*9/dist 128 mk man 129 .EE