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man*.Z The entry is uncompressed, formatted, and displayed. If the
cat*.Z directory
exists, the formatted entry is compressed and installed in
cat*.Z. If the cat*
directory exists, the formatted entry is installed in
cat*.
cat*.Z The entry is uncompressed and displayed.
man* The entry is formatted, and displayed. If the
cat*.Z directory exists, it is
compressed, and installed in
cat*.Z. If the
cat* directory exists, the formatted
entry is installed in
cat*.
cat* The entry is displayed.
If only the
cat* or cat*.Z subdirectory is present and/or nroff(1) is not installed, only entries that are
already formatted can be displayed.
To improve
man performance, you can run the catman (1M) command to create the formatted entries in
the
cat* directories. Running catman with the default creates the
cat*.Z directories (after removing
any
cat* directories that exist on your system) and also creates the file
/usr/share/lib/whatis
used by the man -k option. If you choose to have the
cat* directories, it would be space-saving to
remove any
cat*.Z directories that may exist on your system. Beware that
man updates both direc-
tories (
cat* and cat*.Z) if they both exist.
Special Manual Entries
Some situations may require creation of manual entries for local use or distribution by third-party
software suppliers. The manual formatting macros have been structured to redefine page footers so that
manual entries not originating from Hewlett-Packard Company do not show the
HP name in the footer.
For more information about this change and a description of the manual formatting macros used with
nroff or troff, see man(5).
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed. LANG is also used to determine the
search path (as described above).
If
LANG is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of
LANG
for messages, but not for the search path.
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,
man behaves as if all internationalization
variables are set to "C". See environ (5).
MANPATH, if set, gives a list of directories to be searched for the given entry, replacing the default paths.
PAGER, if set, defines an output filter to be used instead of more(1) to paginate output.
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
EXAMPLES
List the manual entries that contain the word
grep in their respective one-line description (NAME)
lines:
man -k grep
The output is:
grep, egrep, fgrep (1) - search a file for a pattern
zgrep(1) - search possibly compressed files for a
regular expression
Print the one-line description of the grep (1) manual entry:
man -f grep
Print the entire grep(1) manual entry:
man grep
Set a search path that includes a path directly below the current directory. The manual entry, mypage
is assumed to exist in the directory ./man1 (or ./man1.Z, cat1,orcat1.Z).
MANPATH=.:/usr/share/man:/usr/contrib/man:/usr/local/man
export MANPATH
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