MAN(1) MAN(1)
NAME
man, lookman - print or find pages of this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ option ... ] [ section section ... ] title ...
lookman key ...
DESCRIPTION
Man locates and prints pages of this manual named title in
the specified sections. Title is given in lower case. Each
section is a number; pages marked (2S), for example, belong
to chapter 2. If no section is specified, pages in all sec-
tions are printed. Any name from the NAME section at the
top of the page will serve as a title.
The options are:
-p Run proof(1) on the specified man pages.
-t Send the troff output to standard output.
-n (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using
nroff.
Lookman prints the names of all manual sections that contain
all of the key words given on the command line.
FILES
/sys/man/?/* troff source for manual; this
page is /sys/man/1/man
/sys/man/?/INDEX indices searched to find pages
corresponding to titles
/sys/lib/man/secindex command to make an index for a
given section
/sys/lib/man/lookman/index index for lookman
SEE ALSO
proof(1)
BUGS
The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacri-
ficed on text terminals.
There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to
date.
Except for special cases, it doesn't recognize things that
should be run through tbl and/or eqn.
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