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.\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 25 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 31 2017 $
.Dt MAN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nd display manual pages
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm man
-.Op Fl acfhklVw
+.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
.Ar name ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a
-Display all of the manual pages for a specified
-.Ar section
-and
-.Ar name
-combination.
-Normally, only the first manual page found is displayed.
+Display all matching manual pages.
+Normally, only the first page found is displayed.
.It Fl C Ar file
Use the specified
.Ar file
.It Fl h
Display only the SYNOPSIS lines of the requested manual pages.
Implies
-.Fl a .
+.Fl a
+and
+.Fl c .
+.It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
+Override the default operating system
+.Ar name
+for the
+.Xr mdoc 7
+.Ic \&Os
+and for the
+.Xr man 7
+.Ic \&TH
+macro.
+.It Fl K Ar encoding
+Specify the input encoding.
+The supported
+.Ar encoding
+arguments are
+.Cm us-ascii ,
+.Cm iso-8859-1 ,
+and
+.Cm utf-8 .
+By default, the encoding is automatically detected as described in the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+manual.
.It Fl k
A synonym for
.Xr apropos 1 .
separated list of directories.
This search path may also be set using the environment variable
.Ev MANPATH .
-The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
-are specified by the
-.Dq _subdir
-line in the
-.Nm
-configuration file.
.It Fl m Ar path
Augment the list of standard directories which
.Nm
option or the
.Ev MANPATH
environment variable.
-The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
-are specified by the
-.Dq _subdir
-line in the
-.Nm
-configuration file.
+.It Fl O Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value
+Comma-separated output options.
+For each output format, the available options are described in the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+manual.
.It Fl S Ar subsection
Restricts the directories that
.Nm
This option overrides the
.Ev MACHINE
environment variable.
-.It Xo
-.Op Fl s
-.Ar section
-.Xc
-Restricts the directories that
-.Nm
-will search to a specific section.
+.It Oo Fl s Oc Ar section
+Only select manuals from the specified
+.Ar section .
The currently available sections are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "localXXX" -offset indent -compact
.It 2
System calls and error numbers.
.It 3
-Libraries.
-.It 3f
-Fortran programmer's reference guide.
+Library functions.
.It 3p
.Xr perl 1
programmer's reference guide.
.It 6
Games.
.It 7
-Miscellaneous.
+Miscellaneous information.
.It 8
System maintenance and operation commands.
.It 9
Kernel internals.
-.It X11
-An alias for X11R6.
-.It X11R6
-X Window System.
-.It local
-Pages located in
-.Pa /usr/local .
-.It n
-Tcl/Tk commands.
.El
-.Pp
+.It Fl T Ar output
+Select the output format.
+The default is
+.Cm locale .
+The other output modes
+.Cm ascii ,
+.Cm html ,
+.Cm lint ,
+.Cm man ,
+.Cm pdf ,
+.Cm ps ,
+.Cm tree ,
+and
+.Cm utf8
+are described in the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+manual.
+.It Fl W Ar level
+Specify the minimum message
+.Ar level
+to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status.
The
+.Ar level
+can be
+.Cm warning ,
+.Cm error ,
+or
+.Cm unsupp ;
+.Cm all
+is an alias for
+.Cm warning .
+By default,
.Nm
-configuration file,
-.Xr man.conf 5 ,
-specifies the possible
-.Ar section
-values, and their search order.
-Additional sections may be specified.
-.It Fl V
-Print version and exit.
+is silent.
+See the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+manual for details.
.It Fl w
List the pathnames of the manual pages which
.Nm
combination.
.El
.Pp
-The
-.Nm
-utility also supports the options
-.Fl IKOTW
-described in the
-.Xr mandoc 1
-manual.
-.Pp
Guidelines for writing
man pages can be found in
.Xr mdoc 7 .
.Ev MANPAGER
will be used instead of the standard pagination program,
.Xr more 1 .
+If
+.Xr less 1
+is used, the interactive
+.Ic :t
+command can be used to go to the definitions of various terms, for
+example command line options, command modifiers, internal commands,
+environment variables, function names, preprocessor macros,
+.Xr errno 2
+values, and some other emphasized words.
+Some terms may have defining text at more than one place.
+In that case, the
+.Xr less 1
+interactive commands
+.Ic t
+and
+.Ic T
+can be used to move to the next and to the previous place providing
+information about the term last searched for with
+.Ic :t .
.It Ev MANPATH
The standard search path used by
.Nm
The format of the path is a colon
.Pq Ql \&:
separated list of directories.
-The subdirectories to be searched, as well as their search order,
-are specified by the
-.Dq _subdir
-line in the
-.Nm
-configuration file.
.It Ev PAGER
Specifies the pagination program to use when
.Ev MANPAGER
is not defined.
If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
-.Pa /usr/bin/more Fl s
+.Xr more 1
+.Fl s
will be used.
.El
.Sh FILES
specification.
.Pp
The flags
-.Op Fl aCcfhMmSsw ,
+.Op Fl aCcfhIKlMmOSsTWw ,
as well as the environment variables
.Ev MACHINE ,
.Ev MANPAGER ,
.Fl C
in
.Nx 1.0 ;
-and
.Fl s
and
.Fl S
in
-.Ox 2.3 .
+.Ox 2.3 ;
+and
+.Fl I ,
+.Fl K ,
+.Fl l ,
+.Fl O ,
+and
+.Fl W
+in
+.Ox 5.7 .
+The
+.Fl T
+option first appeared in
+.At III
+and was also added in
+.Ox 5.7 .
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