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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/man/man.1 | 36 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index fd423571c6a..68fe7a66c2f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.29 2007/05/23 19:44:09 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.30 2007/05/23 20:03:40 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -81,34 +81,32 @@ Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using to paginate it. This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device. .It Fl f Ar command -Locate man pages matching the -.Ar command -in much the same way -.Xr whatis 1 -works. +A synonym for +.Xr whatis 1 . +It looks up a given command and +gives the header line from the manual page. .It Fl h Display only the .Dq SYNOPSIS lines of the requested manual pages. .It Fl k Ar keyword -Locate man pages matching +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 -in much the same way as -.Xr apropos 1 -works (in fact, it runs -.Xr apropos 1 ) . -This can be used to find which man page applies to a particular subsystem -you are interested in. -For instance: +is case insensitive. .Pp -.Dl $ man -k mount -.Pp -will list all man pages which contain +For instance, +to list all man pages which contain .Dq mount in the .Dq NAME -line of the man page; -in this case a list much like this: +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 |