man [arg...]
Format and display the on-line manual pages
Arguments
Options
| Name | Description |
|---|
-C <config_file> | Specify the configuration file to use |
-M <path> | Specify the list of directories to search (colon separated) |
-P <pager> | Specify the pager program |
-B <browser> | Specify which browser to use for HTML files |
-H <command> | Specify a command that renders HTML files as text |
-S <sections> | Specify a colon-separated list of manual sections to search |
-a | Open every matching page instead of just the first |
-c | Reformat the source page, even when an up-to-date cat-page exists |
-d | Don't actually display the pages (dry run) |
-D | Both display and print debugging info |
-f | Equivalent to `whatis` |
-F, --preformat | Format only, do not display |
-h | Print a help message and exit |
-k | Equivalent to apropos |
-K | Search for a given string in all pages |
-m <system> | Specify an alternate set of pages to search based on the system name given |
-p <preprocessors> | Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or troff |
-t | Use `/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc -c` to format the page |
-w, --path | Print the location of files that would be displayed |
-W | Print file locations, one per line |