Name
man
Synopsis
man [options] [section] [title]
Description
Display information from the online reference manuals. man locates and prints the named title from the designated reference section.
Options
- -7, --ascii
Expect a pure ASCII file, and format it for a 7-bit terminal or terminal emulator.
- -a, --all
Show all pages matching title.
- -b
Leave blank lines in output.
- -d, --debug
Display debugging information. Suppress actual printing of manual pages.
- -f, --whatis
Same as whatis command.
- -k, --apropos
Same as apropos command.
- -l, --local-file
Search local files, not system files, for manual pages. If i is given as filename, search standard input.
- -m systems, --systems= systems
Search systems' manual pages. systems should be a comma-separated list.
- -p preprocessors, --preprocessor= preprocessors
Preprocess manual pages with preprocessors before turning them over to nroff, troff, or groff. Always runs soelim first.
- -r prompt, --prompt= prompt
Set prompt if less is used as pager.
- -t, --troff
Format the manual page with /usr/bin/groff -Tgv -mandoc. Implied by -T and -Z.
- -u, --update
Perform a consistency check between manual page cache and filesystem.
- -w, --where, --location
Print pathnames of entries on standard output.
- -D, --default
Reset all options to their defaults.
- -L locale, --locale= locale
Assume current locale to be locale; do not consult the setlocale() function.
- -M path, --manpath= path
Search for manual pages in path. Ignore -m option.
- -P pager, --pager= pager
Select paging ...
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