1MAN(1)                      General Commands Manual                     MAN(1)
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NAME

6       man - print sections of this manual
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SYNOPSIS

9       man [ option ... ] [ chapter ] title ...
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DESCRIPTION

12       Man  locates  and  prints the section of this manual named title in the
13       specified chapter.  (In this context, the word `page' is often used  as
14       a  synonym  for  `section'.)   The title is entered in lower case.  The
15       chapter number does not need a letter suffix.  If no chapter is  speci‐
16       fied,  the whole manual is searched for title and all occurrences of it
17       are printed.
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19       Options and their meanings are:
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21       -t     Phototypeset the section using troff(1).
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23       -n     Print the section on the standard output using nroff(1).
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25       -k     Display the output on a Tektronix 4014 terminal  using  troff(1)
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28       -e     Appended  or prefixed to any of the above causes the manual sec‐
29              tion to be preprocessed by neqn or eqn(1); -e alone means -te.
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31       -w     Print the path names of the manual sections, but  do  not  print
32              the sections themselves.
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35              Copy an already formatted manual section to the terminal, or, if
36              none is available, act as -n.  It may be necessary to use a fil‐
37              ter  to adapt the output to the particular terminal's character‐
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40       Further options, e.g. to specify the kind of  terminal  you  have,  are
41       passed  on  to  troff(1)  or nroff.  Options and chapter may be changed
42       before each title.
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46              man man
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48       would reproduce this section, as well as any other sections  named  man
49       that may exist in other chapters of the manual, e.g.  man(7).
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FILES

52       /usr/man/man?/∗
53       /usr/man/cat?/∗
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SEE ALSO

56       nroff(1), eqn(1), tc(1), man(7)
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BUGS

59       The  manual  is supposed to be reproducible either on a phototypesetter
60       or on a terminal.  However, on a terminal some information is necessar‐
61       ily lost.
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