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- MAN(1) UNIX Reference Manual MAN(1)
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- NNAAMMEE
- mmaann - display the online manual pages
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- SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
- mmaann [--aacchhww] [--MM _p_a_t_h] [--mm _p_a_t_h] [_s_e_c_t_i_o_n] _n_a_m_e _._._.
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- The mmaann utility displays the BSD UNIX manual pages entitled _n_a_m_e.
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- The options are as follows:
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- --aa Display all of the manual pages for a specified _s_e_c_t_i_o_n and _n_a_m_e
- combination. (Normally, only the first manual page found is dis
- played.)
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- --cc Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using
- more(1) to paginate it. This is done by default if the standard
- output is not a terminal device.
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- --hh Display only the ``SYNOPSIS'' lines of the requested manual
- pages.
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- --MM Override the list of standard directories which mmaann searches for
- manual pages. The supplied _p_a_t_h must be a colon (``:'') separat
- ed list of directories. This search path may also be set using
- the environment variable MANPATH. The subdirectories to be
- searched as well as their search order is specified by the
- ``_subdir'' line in the mmaann configuration file.
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- --mm Augment the list of standard directories which mmaann searches for
- manual pages. The supplied _p_a_t_h must be a colon (``:'') separat
- ed list of directories. These directories will be searched be
- fore the standard directories or the directories specified using
- the --MM option or the MANPATH environment variable.
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- --ww List the pathnames of the manual pages which mmaann would display
- for the specified _s_e_c_t_i_o_n and _n_a_m_e combination.
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- The optional _s_e_c_t_i_o_n restricts the directories that mmaann will search. The
- mmaann configuration file (see man_conf(5)) specifies the possible _s_e_c_t_i_o_n
- values that are currently available. If only a single argument is speci
- fied or if the first argument is not a valid section, mmaann assumes that
- the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed.
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- EENNVVIIRROONNMMEENNTT
- MACHINE As some manual pages are intended only for use on certain ar
- chitectures, mmaann searches certain directories applicable to the
- current machine. Man's determination of the current machine
- type may be overridden by setting the environment variable
- MACHINE to the name of an architecture (see machine(1)). Ma
- chine specific areas are checked before general areas.
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- MANPATH The standard search path used by mmaann may be overridden by spec
- ifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable. The format
- of the path is a colon (``:'') separated list of directories.
- The subdirectories to be searched as well as their search order
- is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the mmaann configuration
- file.
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- PAGER Any value of the environment variable PAGER will be used in
- stead of the standard pagination program more(1).
-
- FFIILLEESS
- /etc/man.conf man configuration file (see man_conf(5))
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- apropos(1), machine(1), whatis(1), whereis(1), man_conf(5)
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- BBUUGGSS
- The online manual pages are, by necessity, forgiving toward stupid dis
- play devices, causing some manual pages to not be as good as their type
- set counterparts.
-
- HHIISSTTOORRYY
- A mmaann command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
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- 4th Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1991 2
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