- About man : To format and display the on-line manual pages
- It comes from “man-1.6f” package.
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /usr/bin/man
Examples:
1. To see the manual for a command
| $ man command $ man ls |
2. To Specify the configuration file to use; the default is /etc/man.config
| $ man -C config_file |
3. To Specify the list of directories to search for man pages
| $ man -M path |
4. To Specify which pager to use
| $ man -P pager |
5. To specify which browser to use on HTML files
| $ man -B |
6. To Specify a command that renders HTML files as text
| $ man -H |
7. To List is a colon separated list of manual sections to search.
| $ man -S section_list |
8. To display all the manual pages that match name
| $ man -a |
9. To Reformat the source man page, even when an up-to-date cat page exists
| $ man -c |
10. To don’t actually display the man pages, but do print gobs of debugging information
| $ man -d |
11. To display and print debugging info
| $ man -D |
12. To display in whatis format
| $ man -f |
13. Just to format and not to display
| $ man -F $ man –preformat |
14. To print a help message and exit
| $ man -h |
15. To search for specified key in all man pages
| $ man -K |
16. To specify an alternate set o man pages
| $ man -m system |
17. To specify the sequence of pre-processors to run before nroff or troff
| $ man -p string |
18. To use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the manual page
| $ man -t |
