man(1) INTERACTIVE UNIX System man(1)
NAME
man - print entries in this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ options ] [ section ] titles
DESCRIPTION
The man command locates and prints the entry of this manual
named title in the specified section. (For historical rea-
sons, the word ``page'' is often used as a synonym for
``entry'' in this context.) The title is entered in lower-
case. The section number may not have a letter suffix. If
no section is specified, the whole manual is searched for
title and all occurrences of it are printed. The options
and their meanings are:
-Tterm Print the entry as appropriate for terminal type
term. For a list of recognized values of term, type
help term2.
-w Print on the standard output only the path names of
the entries, relative to /usr/man, or to the current
directory for the -d option.
-d Search the current directory rather than /usr/catman;
this requires the full file name (e.g., cu.1c, rather
than just cu).
-c Cause man to invoke col(1); note that col(1) is
invoked automatically by man if the INTERACTIVE Text
Processing Workbench is installed.
The man command examines the environment variable $TERM (see
environ(5)) and attempts to select options that adapt the
output to the terminal being used. The -Tterm option over-
rides the value of $TERM; in particular, one should use -Tlp
when sending the output of man to a line printer.
The section may be changed before each title.
As an example:
man man
would display this entry, as well as any other entries named
man that may exist in other sections of the manual, on the
terminal.
FILES
/usr/catman/? man/man[1-8]* Preformatted manual entries
SEE ALSO
environ(5), term(5) in the INTERACTIVE SDS Guide and
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Programmer's Reference Manual.
WARNING
The man command prints manual entries that were formatted
using nroff when the UNIX System was installed. Entries are
originally formatted with terminal type 37, and are printed
using the correct terminal filters as derived from the
-Tterm and $TERM settings. Typesetting or other non-
standard printing of manual entries requires that the
INTERACTIVE Text Processing Workbench be installed.
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