MAN(1) MAN(1)
NAME
man, wm/man, man2html, man2txt, lookman - print or find
manual pages
SYNOPSIS
man [ -b ] [ -n ] [ -p ] [ -S ] [ -w ] [ section ... ] title
...
man -f file ...
wm/man [ section ... ] title ...
wm/man -f file ...
man2html file [ section ]
man2txt [ -p width ] [ file ... ]
lookman [ -f ] keyword ...
DESCRIPTION
Both man and wm/man locate entries in this manual and dis-
play them. The pages for entries named title within each
specified section are displayed. If no sections are speci-
fied, matching pages from all sections are printed. Sec-
tions are given by number.
The -f option to man and wm/man prevent lookup in the manual
index. Instead, the remaining arguments are treated as
filenames. Man processes each file in turn. Wm/man adds
each file to its page history and displays the first docu-
ment in the list.
The man command prints the manual pages as formatted plain
text to standard output. Manual pages are written using
Plan9 troff -man macros for their markup and so some detail
is lost in conversion to plain text. Wm/man displays the
pages in a graphical Wm window, providing a more faithful
reproduction of the intended layout.
Man also accepts the following options:
-b Print the pages and send them to plumber(1) for display
in an editor.
-n Use man2txt to format the pages (default).
-p Display the pages using wm/man.
-S Do not search the manual indices for the names: only
print pages whose file names match the titles.
-w Print the names of the man page source files instead of
formatting them.
Man2html converts troff -man macro markup to an
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approximation in HTML on standard output. Only one file is
processed at a time. It is assumed the input file is a man-
ual page, in the given section (default: 1).
Man2txt converts troff -man macro markup to plain text.
Each file is processed separately. If no arguments are
given, text from standard input is processed. The converted
text is written to standard output. The -p option to
man2txt specifies the page width in characters.
Lookman finds the manual pages, in any section, that contain
all of the keywords given as arguments, and prints man com-
mands and manual references for them, one per line. In a
wm-sh(1) window, any of the man commands can be selected
with mouse button 2 and sent as a command; a manual refer-
ence can simply be plumb(1)'d using mouse button 3. The -f
option causes lookman just to list the file names.
FILES
/man/?/* Source files of manual pages.
/man/1/man The source file for this manual page.
/man/?/INDEX Used by man and wm/man to locate the source
file containing a particular title.
/man/index The lookman index.
SOURCE
/appl/wm/man.b
/dis/man sh(1) script
/appl/cmd/man2txt.b
/dis/lookman sh(1) script
/appl/lib/parseman.b
SEE ALSO
wm(1)
BUGS
Man2txt only knows about troff -man macros. Other troff
macro packages or output from preprocessors such as pic or
tbl will not be presented correctly.
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