man 2.7.5

Usage: man [OPTION...] [SECTION] PAGE... -C, --config-file=FILE use this user configuration file -d, --debug emit debugging messages -D, --default reset all options to their default values --warnings[=WARNINGS] enable warnings from groff Main modes of operation: -f, --whatis equivalent to whatis -k, --apropos equivalent to apropos -K, --global-apropos search for text in all pages -l, --local-file interpret PAGE argument(s) as local filename(s) -w, --where, --path, --location print physical location of man page(s) -W, --where-cat, --location-cat print physical location of cat file(s) -c, --catman used by catman to reformat out of date cat pages -R, --recode=ENCODING output source page encoded in ENCODING Finding manual pages: -L, --locale=LOCALE define the locale for this particular man search -m, --systems=SYSTEM use manual pages from other systems -M, --manpath=PATH set search path for manual pages to PATH -S, -s, --sections=LIST use colon separated section list -e, --extension=EXTENSION limit search to extension type EXTENSION -i, --ignore-case look for pages case-insensitively (default) -I, --match-case look for pages case-sensitively --regex show all pages matching regex --wildcard show all pages matching wildcard --names-only make --regex and --wildcard match page names only, not descriptions -a, --all find all matching manual pages -u, --update force a cache consistency check --no-subpages don't try subpages, e.g. 'man foo bar' => 'man foo-bar' Controlling formatted output: -P, --pager=PAGER use program PAGER to display output -r, --prompt=STRING provide the `less' pager with a prompt -7, --ascii display ASCII translation of certain latin1 chars -E, --encoding=ENCODING use selected output encoding --no-hyphenation, --nh turn off hyphenation --no-justification, --nj turn off justification -p, --preprocessor=STRING STRING indicates which preprocessors to run: e - [n]eqn, p - pic, t - tbl, g - grap, r - refer, v - vgrind -t, --troff use groff to format pages -T, --troff-device[=DEVICE] use groff with selected device -H, --html[=BROWSER] use www-browser or BROWSER to display HTML output -X, --gxditview[=RESOLUTION] use groff and display through gxditview (X11): -X = -TX75, -X100 = -TX100, -X100-12 = -TX100-12 -Z, --ditroff use groff and force it to produce ditroff -?, --help give this help list --usage give a short usage message -V, --version print program version Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. Report bugs to cjwatson@debian.org.