MAN(1) MAN(1)
NAME
man, lookman - print or find pages of this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ option ... ] [ 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.
-P Run page(1) on the specified man pages.
-t Run troff and send its 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
SOURCE
/rc/bin/man
/rc/bin/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
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date.
Except for special cases, it doesn't recognize things that
should be run through tbl and/or eqn.
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