Name
man
Synopsis
man [options
] [section
] [title
]
Displays information from the online reference manuals.
man
locates and prints the named
title
from the designated reference
section
.
Options
-
-a
Show all pages matching title.
-
-d
Display debugging information. Suppress actual printing of man pages.
-
-f
Same as
whatis
command.-
-h
Print help and exit.
-
-k
Same as
apropos
command.-
-m
systems
Search
systems
' manpages.systems
should be a comma-separated list.-
-M
path
Search for manpages in
path
. Ignore-m
option.-
-p
preprocessors
Preprocess manpages with
preprocessors
before turning them over tonroff
,troff
, orgroff
. Always runssoelim
first.-
-P
pager
Select paging program
pager
to display the entry.-
-S
sections
Define colon-separated list of
sections
to search.-
-t
Format the manpage with
troff
.-
-w
Print pathnames of entries on standard output.
Section names
Manpages are divided into sections, depending on their intended audience:
-
1
Executable programs or shell commands
-
2
System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
-
3
Library calls (functions within system libraries)
-
4
Special files (usually found in
/dev
)-
5
File formats and conventions
-
6
Games
-
7
Macro packages and conventions
-
8
System administration commands (usually only for a privileged user)
-
9
Kernel routines (nonstandard)
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