1MAN(1) 386BSD Reference Manual MAN(1) 2 3NNAAMMEE 4 mmaann - display the on-line manual pages 5 6SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS 7 mmaann [--aacchhww] [--MM _p_a_t_h] [--mm _p_a_t_h] [_s_e_c_t_i_o_n] _n_a_m_e ... 8 9DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN 10 The mmaann utility displays the BSD UNIX manual pages entitled _n_a_m_e. 11 12 The options are as follows: 13 14 --aa Display all of the manual pages for a specified _s_e_c_t_i_o_n and _n_a_m_e 15 combination. (Normally, only the first manual page found is 16 displayed.) 17 18 --cc Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using 19 more(1) to paginate it. This is done by default if the standard 20 output is not a terminal device. 21 22 --hh Display only the ``SYNOPSIS'' lines of the requested manual 23 pages. 24 25 --MM Override the list of standard directories which mmaann searches for 26 manual pages. The supplied _p_a_t_h must be a colon (``:'') 27 separated list of directories. This search path may also be set 28 using the environment variable MANPATH. The subdirectories to be 29 searched as well as their search order is specified by the 30 ``_subdir'' line in the mmaann configuration file. 31 32 --mm Augment the list of standard directories which mmaann searches for 33 manual pages. The supplied _p_a_t_h must be a colon (``:'') 34 separated list of directories. These directories will be 35 searched before the standard directories or the directories 36 specified using the --MM option or the MANPATH environment 37 variable. 38 39 --ww List the pathnames of the manual pages which mmaann would display 40 for the specified _s_e_c_t_i_o_n and _n_a_m_e combination. 41 42 The optional _s_e_c_t_i_o_n restricts the directories that mmaann will search. The 43 mmaann configuration file (see man_conf(5)) specifies the possible _s_e_c_t_i_o_n 44 values that are currently available. If only a single argument is 45 specified or if the first argument is not a valid section, mmaann assumes 46 that the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed. 47 48EENNVVIIRROONNMMEENNTT 49 MACHINE As some manual pages are intended only for use on certain 50 architectures, mmaann searches certain directories applicable to 51 the current machine. Man's determination of the current 52 machine type may be overridden by setting the environment 53 variable MACHINE to the name of an architecture (see 54 machine(1)). Machine specific areas are checked before general 55 areas. 56 57 MANPATH The standard search path used by mmaann may be overridden by 58 specifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable. The 59 format of the path is a colon (``:'') separated list of 60 directories. The subdirectories to be searched as well as 61 their search order is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the 62 mmaann configuration file. 63 64 PAGER Any value of the environment variable PAGER will be used 65 instead of the standard pagination program more(1). 66 67FFIILLEESS 68 /etc/man.conf man configuration file (see man_conf(5)) 69 70SSEEEE AALLSSOO 71 apropos(1), machine(1), whatis(1), whereis(1), man_conf(5) 72 73BBUUGGSS 74 The on-line manual pages are, by necessity, forgiving toward stupid 75 display devices, causing some manual pages to not be as good as their 76 typeset counterparts. 77 78HHIISSTTOORRYY 79 A mmaann command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. 80 814th Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1991 2 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133