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- MAN(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAN(1)
- NAME
- man - display online manual pages
- SYNOPSIS
- man [-antkf] [-M path] [-s section] title ...
- DESCRIPTION
- Man displays the online manual pages for the specified titles in the
- specified sections. The sections are as follows:
- 1 User Commands
- Generic commands such as ls, cp, grep.
- 2 System Calls
- Low level routines that directly interface with the kernel.
- 3 Library Routines
- Higher level C language subroutines.
- 4 Device Files
- Describes devices in /dev.
- 5 File Formats
- Formats of files handled by various utilities and subroutines.
- 6 Games
- It's not UNIX without an adventure game.
- 7 Miscellaneous
- Macro packages, miscellaneous tidbits.
- 8 System Utilities
- Commands for the System Administrator.
- 9 Documents
- Larger manuals explaining some commands in more detail.
- (If you are new to Minix then try man hier, it will show you around the
- file system and give you many pointers to other manual pages.)
- By default, man will try the following files in a manual page directory
- for the command man -s 1 ls:
- cat1/ls.1
- cat1/ls.1.Z
- man1/ls.1
- man1/ls.1.Z
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- Files in the man[1-8] directories are formatted with nroff -man. Those
- in man9 are formatted with nroff -mnx. Files in the cat? directories are
- preformatted. Files with names ending in .Z are decompressed first with
- zcat (see compress(1)). The end result is presented to the user using a
- pager if displaying on the screen.
- For each manual page directory in its search path, man will first try all
- the subdirectories of the manual page directory for the files above, and
- then the directory itself. The directory /usr/man contains the standard
- manual pages, with manual pages for optional packages installed in a
- subdirectory of /usr/man, with the same structure as /usr/man. The
- directory /usr/local/man contains manual pages for locally added
- software. By default /usr/local/man is searched first, then /usr/man.
- A title is not simply used as a filename, because several titles may
- refer to the same manual page. Each manual page directory contains a
- database of titles in the whatis(5) file that is created by makewhatis(8)
- from the NAME sections of all the manual pages. A title is searched in
- this database and the first title on a whatis line is used as a filename.
- OPTIONS
- The options may be interspersed with the titles to search, and take
- effect for the titles after them.
- -a Show all the manual pages or one line descriptions with the given
- title in all the specified sections in all the manual directories in
- the search path. Normally only the first page found is shown.
- -n Use nroff -man to format manual pages (default).
- -t Use troff -man to format manual pages.
- -f Use whatis(1) to show a one line description of the title from the
- whatis(5) file.
- -k Use apropos(1) to show all the one line descriptions of the title
- anywhere in the whatis(5) files (implies -a).
- -M path
- Use path as the search path for manual directories.
- -s section
- Section is the section number the page is to be found in, or a comma
- separated list of sections to use. Normally all sections are
- searched. The search is always in numerical order no matter what
- your section list looks like. A single digit is treated as a
- section number without the -s for compatibility with BSD-style man
- commands.
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- ENVIRONMENT
- MANPATH This is a colon separated list of directories to search
- for manual pages, by default /usr/local/man:/usr/man.
- PAGER The program to use to display the manual page or one line
- descriptions on the screen page by page. By default more.
- FILES
- /usr/man/whatis One of the whatis(5) databases.
- SEE ALSO
- nroff(1), troff(1), more(1), whatis(1), makewhatis(1), catman(1),
- whatis(5), man(7).
- AUTHOR
- Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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