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.\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 25 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 22 2018 $
.Dt MAN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm man
.Op Fl acfhklw
.Op Fl C Ar file
-.Op Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
-.Op Fl K Ar encoding
.Op Fl M Ar path
.Op Fl m Ar path
-.Op Fl O Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value
.Op Fl S Ar subsection
-.Op Fl s Ar section
-.Op Fl T Ar output
-.Op Fl W Ar level
-.Op Ar section
+.Op Oo Fl s Oc Ar section
.Ar name ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Xr more 1
to paginate it.
This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device.
+.Pp
+When using
+.Fl c ,
+most terminal devices are unable to show the markup.
+To print the output of
+.Nm
+to the terminal with markup but without using a pager, pipe it to
+.Xr ul 1 .
+To remove the markup, pipe the output to
+.Xr col 1
+.Fl b
+instead.
.It Fl f
A synonym for
.Xr whatis 1 .
.Ar name
in manual page names and displays the header lines from all matching pages.
The search is case insensitive and matches whole words only.
-This overrides any earlier
-.Fl k
-and
-.Fl l
-options.
.It Fl h
Display only the SYNOPSIS lines of the requested manual pages.
Implies
.Xr apropos 1
manual.
By default, it displays the header lines of all matching pages.
-This overrides any earlier
-.Fl f
-and
-.Fl l
-options.
.It Fl l
A synonym for
-.Xr mandoc 1
-.Fl a .
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
The
.Ar name
arguments are interpreted as filenames.
.Ar file ,
.Ar path ,
.Ar section ,
-and
-.Ar subsection
-are ignored.
-This overrides any earlier
-.Fl f ,
-.Fl k ,
+.Ar subsection ,
and
.Fl w
-options.
+are ignored.
+This option implies
+.Fl a .
.It Fl M Ar path
Override the list of standard directories which
.Nm
.Fl IKOTW
are also supported and are documented in
.Xr mandoc 1 .
+The options
+.Fl fkl
+are mutually exclusive and override each other.
.Pp
Guidelines for writing
man pages can be found in
can be used to move to the next and to the previous place providing
information about the term last searched for with
.Ic :t .
+The
+.Fl O Cm tag Ns Op = Ns Ar term
+option documented in the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+manual opens a manual page at the definition of a specific
+.Ar term
+rather than at the beginning.
.It Ev MANPATH
The standard search path used by
.Nm
The format of the path is a colon
.Pq Ql \&:
separated list of directories.
-Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored.
+Invalid paths are ignored.
Overridden by
.Fl M ,
ignored if
.Xr more 1
.Fl s
is used.
-Only used if
-.Fl a
-or
-.Fl l
-is specified.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf -compact
See
.Xr mandoc 1
for details.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Format a page for pasting extracts into an email message \(em
+avoid printing any UTF-8 characters, reduce the width to ease
+quoting in replies, and remove markup:
+.Pp
+.Dl $ man -T ascii -O width=65 pledge | col -b
+.Pp
+Read a typeset page in a PDF viewer:
+.Pp
+.Dl $ MANPAGER=mupdf man -T pdf lpd
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
-.Xr intro 1 ,
+.Xr col 1 ,
+.Xr mandoc 1 ,
+.Xr ul 1 ,
.Xr whereis 1 ,
-.Xr intro 2 ,
-.Xr intro 3 ,
-.Xr intro 4 ,
-.Xr intro 5 ,
.Xr man.conf 5 ,
-.Xr intro 6 ,
-.Xr intro 7 ,
-.Xr mdoc 7 ,
-.Xr intro 8 ,
-.Xr intro 9
+.Xr mdoc 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
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