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.TH MAN 1
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.SH NAME
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man, lookman, sig \- print or find pages of this manual
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B man
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[
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.B -bnpPStw
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]
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[
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.I section ...
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]
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.I title ...
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.PP
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.B lookman
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.I key ...
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.PP
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.B sig
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.I function ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Man
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locates and prints pages of this manual named
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.I title
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in the specified
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.IR sections .
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.I Title
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is given in lower case.
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Each
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.I section
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is a number;
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pages marked (2S), for example,
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belong to chapter 2.
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If no
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.I section
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is specified, pages
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in all sections are printed.
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Any name from the
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.SM NAME
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section at the top of the page will serve as a
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.IR title .
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.PP
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The options are:
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.TP
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.B -n
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(Default)
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Print the pages on the standard output using
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.IR nroff .
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.TP
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.B -b
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Print the pages using
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.I nroff
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and send them to
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.IR plumber (4)
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for display in the editor.
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.TP
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.B -p
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Run
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.IR proof (1)
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on the specified man pages.
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.TP
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.B -P
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Run
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.IR page (1)
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on the specified man pages.
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.TP
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.B -S
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Do not search the manual indices for the names.
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Only print pages whose file names match the names.
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.TP
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.B -t
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Run
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.IR troff (1)
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and send its output
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to standard output.
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.TP
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.B -w
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Print the names of the man page source files.
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.PD
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.PP
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.B Lookman
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prints the names of all manual sections that contain
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all of the
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.I key
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words given on the command line.
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.PP
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.B Sig
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prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the
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.IR function s
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given on the command line.
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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.B /sys/man/?/*
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.I troff
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source for manual; this page is
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.B /sys/man/1/man
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.TP
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.B /sys/man/?/INDEX
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indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles
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.TP
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.B /sys/lib/man/secindex
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command to make an index for a given section
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.TP
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.B /sys/lib/man/lookman/index
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index for
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.I lookman
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.SH SOURCE
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.B /rc/bin/man
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.br
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.B /rc/bin/lookman
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR page (1),
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.IR proof (1)
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.SH BUGS
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The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals.
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.PP
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There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
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.PP
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Except for special cases,
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.I man
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doesn't recognize things that should be run through
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.I tbl
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and/or
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.IR eqn .