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MAN(1)									MAN(1)

NAME
       man - find manual information by keywords; print out the manual

SYNOPSIS
       man [ - ] [ -M path ] [ section ] title ...
       man -t title ...
       man -k keyword ...
       man -f file ...

DESCRIPTION
       Man  is	a program which gives information from the programmers manual.
       It can be asked for one line  descriptions  of  commands	 specified  by
       name,  or  for  all commands whose description contains any of a set of
       keywords.  It can also provide on-line access to the  sections  of  the
       printed manual.

       When given the option -t and the title of a manual page, man prints the
       specified man page on the default printer.  The default	troff  command
       used  with  the	-t  option  is	ptroff,	 which	formats the output for
       printing on  a  PostScript  printer.   A	 different  formatter  can  be
       specified with the `TROFF' environment variable.

       When  given  the	 option -k and a set of keywords, man prints out a one
       line synopsis of each manual sections whose listing  in	the  table  of
       contents contains one of those keywords.

       When  given  the	 option	 -f  and a list of file names, man attempts to
       locate manual sections related to those files, printing out  the	 table
       of contents lines for those sections.

       If  none	 of these options is specified, man formats a specified set of
       manual pages.  If a section specifier  is  given,  man  looks  in  that
       section	of  the	 manual	 for  the  given titles.  Section is either an
       Arabic section number (3 for instance), or one of  the  words  ``new,''
       ``local,'' ``old,'' or ``public.''  A section number may be followed by
       a single letter classifier (for instance,  1g,  indicating  a  graphics
       program	in  section  1).   If  section	is  omitted,  man searches all
       sections of the manual, giving preference to commands over  subroutines
       in system libraries, and printing the first section it finds, if any.

       If  the	standard  output is a teletype, or if the flag - is given, man
       pipes its output through more(1)	 with  the  option  -s	to  crush  out
       useless	blank  lines and to stop after each page on the screen.	 Hit a
       space to continue, a control-D to scroll 11 more lines when the	output
       stops.	A  different  pager  for  viewing  man pages (for example, the
       less(1)	pager)	can  be	 specified  with  the  `MANPAGER'  environment
       variable.

       Normally	 man  checks  in  a  standard  location for manual information
       (/usr/man).  This can be changed by supplying a search path with the -M
       flag.   The  search path is a colon (`:') separated list of directories
       in    which    manual	subdirectories	  may	 be    found;	  e.g.
       ``/usr/local:/usr/man''.	 If the environment variable `MANPATH' is set,
       its value is used for the default path.	If a search path  is  supplied
       with the -k or -f options, it must be specified first.

       Man  will  look	for  the manual page in either of two forms, the nroff
       source or preformatted pages.  If  either  version  is  available,  the
       manual  page  will  be  displayed.   If	the  preformatted  version  is
       available, and it has a more recent modify time than the nroff  source,
       it  will	 be  promptly  displayed.   Otherwise, the manual page will be
       formatted with nroff and displayed.  If the user	 has  permission,  the
       formatted  manual  page	will be deposited in the proper place, so that
       later invocations of man will not need to format the page again.

FILES
       /usr/man		 standard manual area
       /usr/man/man?/*	 directories containing source for manuals
       /usr/man/cat?/*	 directories containing preformatted pages
       /usr/man/whatis	 keyword database

SEE ALSO
       apropos(1), more(1), whereis(1), catman(8)

BUGS
       The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter
       or  on  a  typewriter.	However,  on  a typewriter some information is
       necessarily lost.

4th Berkeley Distribution      February 13, 1989			MAN(1)
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