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| author | lukem <lukem@NetBSD.org> | 1997-10-19 05:05:24 +0000 |
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| committer | lukem <lukem@NetBSD.org> | 1997-10-19 05:05:24 +0000 |
| commit | 6d1c625f54047c94c8ea6f2f7050cd258cfb403c (patch) | |
| tree | 2fa7b61294360f85f19e1cc24c03c4c4211e6583 /usr.bin/man | |
| parent | 7c81c8f378d0f6d324039451f1cb953d6e56918b (diff) | |
fix up .Nm usage
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/man/man.1 | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/man/man.conf.5 | 8 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index 6bb4ad79e42..637b2a857c6 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ .Nm man .Nd display the on-line manual pages .Sh SYNOPSIS -.Nm man +.Nm .Op Fl achw .Op Fl C Ar file .Op Fl M Ar path @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ .Ar name Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The -.Nm man +.Nm utility displays the .Bx @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Display only the lines of the requested manual pages. .It Fl M Override the list of standard directories which -.Nm man +.Nm searches for manual pages. The supplied .Ar path @@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ This search path may also be set using the environment variable .Ev MANPATH . The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man +.Nm configuration file. .It Fl m Augment the list of standard directories which -.Nm man +.Nm searches for manual pages. The supplied .Ar path @@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ option or the environment variable. The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man +.Nm configuration file. .It Fl w List the pathnames of the manual pages which -.Nm man +.Nm would display for the specified .Ar section and @@ -123,10 +123,10 @@ combination. The optional .Ar section argument restricts the directories that -.Nm man +.Nm will search. The -.Nm man +.Nm configuration file (see .Xr man.conf 5 ) specifies the possible @@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ specifies the possible values that are currently available. If only a single argument is specified or if the first argument is not a valid section, -.Nm man +.Nm assumes that the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed. .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width MANPATHX .It Ev MACHINE As some manual pages are intended only for specific architectures, -.Nm man +.Nm searches any subdirectories, with the same name as the current architecture, in every directory which it searches. @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ variable to the name of a specific architecture. .It Ev MANPATH The standard search path used by -.Nm man +.Nm may be overridden by specifying a path in the .Ev MANPATH environment @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ 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 -.Nm man +.Nm configuration file. .It Ev PAGER Any value of the environment variable diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5 b/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5 index 353a30236fb..2d1495be057 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5 @@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ and .Xr whatis 1 commands search for manual pages or their database files as specified by the -.Nm man.conf +.Nm file. Manual pages are normally expected to be preformatted (see .Xr nroff 1 ) and named with a trailing ``.0''. .Pp The -.Nm man.conf +.Nm file contains two types of lines. .Pp The first type of line is a ``section'' line, which contains a @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Before searching any directory for a manual page, the command always searches the subdirectory with the same name as the current machine type, if it exists. No specification of these subdirectories is necessary in the -.Nm man.conf +.Nm file. .Pp Section names are unrestricted except for the reserved words specified @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Empty lines or lines whose first non-whitespace character is a hash mark (``#'') are ignored. .Sh EXAMPLES Given the following -.Nm man.conf +.Nm file: .Bd -literal -offset indent _version BSD.2 |
