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+.\" $Id$
.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.55 2014/04/03 06:15:18 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, 2008, 2014 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -37,7 +40,7 @@
.Nd display manual pages
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm man
-.Op Fl achw
+.Op Fl acfhkw
.Op Fl C Ar file
.Op Fl M Ar path
.Op Fl m Ar path
@@ -45,16 +48,11 @@
.Op Fl s Ar section
.Op Ar section
.Ar name ...
-.Nm man
-.Fl f Ar command ...
-.Nm man
-.Fl k Ar keyword ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility
displays the
-.Bx
manual pages entitled
.Ar name .
Pages may be selected according to
@@ -86,56 +84,26 @@ Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using
.Xr more 1
to paginate it.
This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device.
-.It Fl f Ar command
+.It Fl f
A synonym for
.Xr whatis 1 .
-It looks up a given command and
-gives the header line from the manual page.
-.Ar command
-is case insensitive.
+It searches for
+.Ar name
+in manual page names and displays the header lines from all matching pages.
+The search is case insensitive and matches whole words only.
.It Fl h
Display only the
.Dq SYNOPSIS
lines of the requested manual pages.
-.It Fl k Ar keyword
+.It Fl k
A synonym for
.Xr apropos 1 .
-It shows which manual pages contain instances of any of the given
-keywords in their title line.
-.Ar keyword
-is case insensitive.
-.Pp
-For instance,
-to list all man pages which contain
-.Dq mount
-in the
-.Dq NAME
-line of the man page:
-.Pp
-.Dl $ man -k mount
-.Pp
-Which would produce a list much like this:
-.Bd -literal
-amd (8) \(en automatically mount file systems
-amq (8) \(en automounter query tool
-domountroothooks (9) \(en run all mountroot hooks
-exports (5) \(en define remote mount points for NFS mount requests
-getfsstat (2) \(en get list of all mounted file systems
-getmntinfo (3) \(en get information about mounted file systems
-mount (8) \(en mount file systems
-mount, unmount (2) \(en mount or dismount a filesystem
-mount_cd9660 (8) \(en mount an ISO-9660 filesystem
-mount_ext2fs (8) \(en mount an ext2fs file system
-mount_ffs (8) \(en mount a Berkeley Fast File System
-mount_msdos (8) \(en mount an MS-DOS file system
-mount_nfs (8) \(en mount NFS file systems
-mount_ntfs (8) \(en mount an NTFS file system
-mount_procfs (8) \(en mount the process file system
-mount_udf (8) \(en mount a UDF filesystem
-mount_vnd, vnconfig (8) \(en configure vnode disks
-mountd (8) \(en service remote NFS mount requests
-\&...
-.Ed
+Instead of
+.Ar name ,
+an expression can be provided using the syntax described in the
+.Xr apropos 1
+manual.
+By default, it displays the header lines of all matching pages.
.It Fl M Ar path
Override the list of standard directories which
.Nm
@@ -253,8 +221,7 @@ and
combination.
.El
.Pp
-Guidelines for
-.Ox
+Guidelines for writing
man pages can be found in
.Xr mdoc 7 .
.Pp