1hman(1)                     General Commands Manual                    hman(1)
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NAME

6       hman - browse the on-line manual pages
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SYNOPSIS

9       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
10       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]
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DESCRIPTION

13       The hman script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter
14       man page requests at the command line  and  view  the  output  in  your
15       favourite  browser.   The  behaviour  reminds of that of man(1) so that
16       many people will be able to alias hman to man.  If the browser used  is
17       netscape,  and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will
18       pass the request to the existing browser.
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OPTIONS

22       -P  browser
23              Specify which browser (like lynx, elinks, firefox, or  chromium-
24              browser,  ...)   to use.  This option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER
25              environment variable.  Otherwise, hman will  use  your  system's
26              default browser via xdg-open(1).
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29              Specify  from what host to get the man pages.  This option over‐
30              rides the MANHTMLHOST  environment  variable.   The  default  is
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ENVIRONMENT

35       MANHTMLPAGER
36              The  default  browser  to use is selected using this environment
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40              The default host to use is selected using this environment vari‐
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SEE ALSO

45       man(1), man2html(1),
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49                                19 January 1998                        hman(1)