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MAN(1) General Commands Manual MAN(1) NAME man - print pages of this manual SYNOPSIS man [ option ... ] [ chapter ] title ... man -k pattern DESCRIPTION Man locates and prints pages of this manual named title in the speci- fied chapter. Title is given in lower case. The chapter number is a single digit, 1-9; pages marked (3S) or (9.1), for example, belong to chapters 3 and 9 respectively. If no chapter is specified, pages in all chapters, including the unprinted appendix, are printed. On some machines a cache of preformatted pages is available. If so, and if neither option -t or -n is present, option -q, for quick print- ing, is assumed. The options are: -q Copy cached pages to the standard output or, if they are out of date or unavailable, act as -n. Any name from the NAME list at the top of the page will serve as a title in the cache. If the standard output is directed to a terminal, filter it through ul(1). -t Use troff(1) to place on the standard output intermediate code to drive the typesetting devices of lp(1), apsend(1), or proof(9.1). -n Print the pages on the standard output using nroff. -f The titles are actual names of manual source files. Assume op- tion -t unless -n is present. -k Report the NAME lines of all manual pages that matches the pat- tern. The pattern is as in egrep; see gre(1). Under -t and -n further options, e.g. to specify the kind of terminal you have, are passed on to troff or nroff. From time to time a daemon updates cached pages that are out of date and supplies links for subsidiary entries. EXAMPLES man man Reproduce this page and man(6). man -t eqn eqnchar | lp Format the eqn and eqnchar pages and send them to the laser printer. man -k 'copy.*file|file.*copy' Look for file-copying utilities. FILES troff source for manual; this page is manual cache cache daemon; invoked by cron(8) SEE ALSO troff(1), man(6), apsend(1), lp(1), proof(9.1) BUGS The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on terminals. You can't ask for manual pages named 1 through 9. Pages not available in the cache can be located by their proper titles only. Cache entries by subsidiary names are always deemed up to date. MAN(1)