APROPOS(1) - General Commands Manual # APROPOS(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # apropos, whatis - search manual page databases
SYNOPSIS # apropos [-afk] [-C file] [-M path] [-m path] [-O outkey] [-S arch] [-s section] expression …
DESCRIPTION # The apropos and whatis utilities query manual page databases generated by makewhatis(8), evaluating expression for each file in each database. By default, they display the names, section numbers, and description lines of all matching manuals.
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DEROFF(1) - General Commands Manual # DEROFF(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # deroff - remove nroff/troff, eqn, pic and tbl constructs
SYNOPSIS # deroff [-ikpw] [-m a | e | l | m | s] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # deroff reads each file in sequence and removes all roff command lines, backslash constructions, macro definitions, eqn constructs (between “.EQ” and “.EN” lines or between delimiters), pic pictures, and table descriptions and writes the remainder to the standard output.
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EQN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # EQN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual
NAME # eqn - eqn language reference for mandoc
DESCRIPTION # The eqn language is an equation-formatting language. It is used within mdoc(7) and man(7) UNIX manual pages. It describes the structure of an equation, not its mathematical meaning. This manual describes the eqn language accepted by the mandoc(1) utility, which corresponds to the Second Edition eqn specification (see SEE ALSO for references).
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INTRO(1) - General Commands Manual # INTRO(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # intro - introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)
DESCRIPTION # The manual pages in section 1 contain most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section 1 are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands.
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MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager’s Manual # MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # makewhatis - index UNIX manuals
SYNOPSIS # makewhatis [-aDnpQ] [-TÂ utf8] [-CÂ file]
makewhatis [-aDnpQ] [-T utf8] dir …
makewhatis [-DnpQ] [-T utf8] -d dir [file …]
makewhatis [-Dnp] [-T utf8] -u dir [file …]
makewhatis [-DQ] -t file …
DESCRIPTION # The makewhatis utility extracts keywords from UNIX manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by apropos(1), whatis(1), and man(1).
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MAN.CONF(5) - File Formats Manual # MAN.CONF(5) - File Formats Manual
NAME # man.conf - configuration file for man
DESCRIPTION # This is the configuration file for the man(1), apropos(1), and makewhatis(8) utilities. Its presence, and all directives, are optional.
This file is an ASCII text file. Leading whitespace on lines, lines starting with ‘#’, and blank lines are ignored. Words are separated by whitespace. The first word on each line is the name of a configuration directive.
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MAN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # MAN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual
NAME # man - legacy formatting language for manual pages
DESCRIPTION # The man language was the standard formatting language for AT&T UNIX manual pages from 1979 to 1989. Do not use it to write new manual pages: it is a purely presentational language and lacks support for semantic markup. Use the mdoc(7) language, instead.
In a man document, lines beginning with the control character ‘.
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MANDOC_CHAR(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # MANDOC_CHAR(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual
NAME # mandoc_char - mandoc special characters
DESCRIPTION # This page documents the roff(7) escape sequences accepted by mandoc(1) to represent special characters in mdoc(7) and man(7) documents.
The rendering depends on the mandoc(1) output mode; it can be inspected by calling man(1) on the mandoc_char manual page with different -T arguments. In ASCII output, the rendering of some characters may be hard to interpret for the reader.
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MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual # MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual
NAME # mandoc.db - manual page database
DESCRIPTION # The mandoc.db file format is used to store information about installed manual pages to facilitate semantic searching for manuals. Each manual page tree contains its own mandoc.db file; see FILES for examples.
Such database files are generated by makewhatis(8) and used by man(1), apropos(1) and whatis(1).
The file format uses three datatypes:
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MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual # MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # mandoc - format manual pages
SYNOPSIS # mandoc [-ac] [-I os=name] [-K encoding] [-mdoc | -man] [-O options] [-T output] [-W level] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # The mandoc utility formats manual pages for display.
By default, mandoc reads mdoc(7) or man(7) text from stdin and produces -T locale output.
The options are as follows:
-a
If the standard output is a terminal device and -c is not specified, use less(1) to paginate the output, just like man(1) would.
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