man(1) - Plan 9 from User Space

| MAN(1) | MAN(1)
| NAME
| man, lookman, sig – print or find pages of this manual
SYNOPSIS
| `man` [ `−hnpPtw` ] [ section ... ] [ `−−` ] title ...
`lookman` key ...
`sig` function ...
DESCRIPTION
| Man locates and prints pages of this manual named title in the specified sections. Title is given in lower case. Each section is a number; pages marked (2S), for example, belong to chapter 2. If no section is specified, pages in all sections are printed. Any name from the NAME section at the top of the page will serve as a title.
The options are: `−h` Print the pages to HTML and send to a web browser with web(1). `−n` (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using nroff. `−p` Run proof(1) on the specified man pages. `−P` Run page(1) on the specified man pages. `−t` Run troff(1) and send its output to standard output. `−w` Print the file names for the pages.
`Lookman` prints the names of all manual sections that contain all of the key words given on the command line.
`Sig` prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the function’s given on the command line.
FILES
| `/usr/lib/plan9/man?/*.[0−9]*`
| troff source for manual; this page is `/usr/lib/plan9/man/man1/man.1`
`/usr/lib/plan9/man?/*.html`
| HTML version of the manual
`/usr/lib/plan9/man/man?/INDEX`
| indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles
`/usr/lib/plan9/man/secindex`
| command to make an index for a given section
`/usr/lib/plan9/man/lookman.index`
| index for lookman
SOURCE
| `/usr/lib/plan9/bin/man /usr/lib/plan9/bin/lookman`
SEE ALSO
| page(1), proof(1)
BUGS
| The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals.
There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
Except for special cases, man doesn’t recognize things that should be run through tbl and/or eqn.
The HTML manual is not maintained automatically. To update it:
| `cd /usr/lib/plan9/dist mk man`