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MAN(1)			     BSD Reference Manual			MAN(1)

NAME
     man - display the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS
     man [-achw] [-C file] [-M path] [-m path] [-S subsection] [-s section]
	 [section] name [...]
     man -f command
     man -k keyword

DESCRIPTION
     The man utility displays the BSD manual pages entitled name.

     The options are as follows:

     -a	     Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name
	     combination. (Normally, only the first manual page found is
	     displayed.)

     -C file
	     Use the specified file instead of the default configuration file.
	     This permits users to configure their own manual environment. See
	     man.conf(5) for a description of the contents of this file.

     -c	     Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using
	     more(1) to paginate it. This is done by default if the standard
	     output is not a terminal device.

     -f command
	     Locate man pages matching the command in much the same way
	     whatis(1) works.

     -h	     Display only the "SYNOPSIS" lines of the requested manual pages.

     -k keyword
	     Locate man pages matching keyword in much the same way as
	     apropos(1) works (in fact, it runs apropos(1)). This can be used
	     to find which man page applies to a particular subsystem you are
	     interested in. For instance:

		   $ man -k mount

	     will list all man pages which contain keyword in the "NAME" line
	     of the man page; in this case a list much like this:

	     amd (8) - automatically mount file systems
	     amq (8) - automounter query tool
	     mount (8) - mount file systems
	     mount, unmount (2) - mount or dismount a filesystem
	     mount_ados (8) - mount an AmigaDOS file system
	     mount_cd9660 (8) - mount an ISO-9660 filesystem
	     mount_ext2fs (8) - mount a ext2fs file system
	     mount_fdesc (8) - mount the file-descriptor file system
	     mount_ffs, mount_ufs (8) - mount a Berkeley Fast File System
	     mount_kernfs (8) - mount the /kern file system
	     mount_procfs (8) - mount the process file system
	     mount_xfs (8) - mount the xfs filesystem
	     mountd (8) - service remote NFS mount requests
	     newfs, mount_mfs (8) - construct a new file system
	     umount (8) - unmount file systems
	     ...

     -M path
	     Override the list of standard directories which man searches for
	     manual pages. The supplied path must be a colon (':') separated
	     list of directories. This search path may also be set using the
	     environment variable MANPATH. The subdirectories to be searched,
	     and their search order, are specified by the "_subdir" line in
	     the man configuration file.

     -m path
	     Augment the list of standard directories which man searches for
	     manual pages. The supplied path must be a colon (':') separated
	     list of directories. These directories will be searched before
	     the standard directories or the directories specified using the
	     -M option or the MANPATH environment variable. The subdirectories
	     to be searched, and their search order, are specified by the
	     "_subdir" line in the man configuration file.

     -S subsection
	     Specifies the machine-dependent subsection. This overrides the
	     MACHINE environment variable. See the ENVIRONMENT section below.

     -s section
	     Another way of specifying the section, for compatibility with man
	     on other operating systems.

     -w	     List the pathnames of the manual pages which man would display
	     for the specified section and name combination.

     The optional section argument restricts the directories that man will
     search. The currently available sections are:

	   1	General commands (tools and utilities).
	   2	System calls and error numbers.
	   3	Libraries.
	   3p	perl(1) programmer's reference guide.
	   4	Device drivers.
	   5	File formats.
	   6	Games.
	   7	Miscellaneous.
	   8	System maintenance and operation commands.
	   9	Kernel internals.

     The man configuration file (see man.conf(5)) specifies the possible
     section values, and their search order. If only a single argument is
     specified, or if the first argument is not a valid section, man assumes
     that the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed.

     Guidelines for OpenBSD man pages can be found in mdoc(7). A full tutorial
     for writing man pages is provided in mdoc.samples(7).

ENVIRONMENT
     MACHINE   As some manual pages are intended only for specific architec-
	       tures, man searches any subdirectories, with the same name as
	       the current architecture, in every directory which it searches.
	       Machine specific areas are checked before general areas. The
	       current machine type may be overridden by setting the environ-
	       ment variable MACHINE to the name of a specific architecture.

     MANPAGER  Any non-null value of the environment variable MANPAGER will be
	       used instead of the standard pagination program, more(1).

     MANPATH   The standard search path used by man may be overridden by
	       specifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable. The for-
	       mat of the path is a colon (':') separated list of directories.
	       The subdirectories to be searched, as well as their search ord-
	       er, are specified by the "_subdir" line in the man configura-
	       tion file.

     PAGER     Specifies the pagination program to use when MANPAGER is not
	       defined.

FILES
     /etc/man.conf  default man configuration file

SEE ALSO
     apropos(1), intro(1), whatis(1), whereis(1), intro(2), intro(3),
     intro(4), intro(5), man.conf(5), intro(6), intro(7), mdoc(7),
     mdoc.samples(7), intro(8), intro(9)

HISTORY
     A man command appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.

BUGS
     The on-line manual pages are, by necessity, forgiving toward stupid
     display devices, causing a few manual pages to be not as nicely formatted
     as their typeset counterparts.

MirOS BSD #10-current		March 9, 1998				     2
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