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man-db

man-db

man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command.

Runs as man, manpath, mandb, apropos, whatis|Linux, macOS|man-db.gitlab.io

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OptionsOn man itself
-C
Specify the configuration file to use <config_file>
-M
Specify the list of directories to search (colon separated) <path>
-P
Specify the pager program <pager>
-B
Specify which browser to use for HTML files <browser>
-H
Specify a command that renders HTML files as text <command>
-S
Specify a colon-separated list of manual sections to search <sections>
-a
Open every matching page instead of just the first
-c
Reformat the source page, even when an up-to-date cat-page exists
-d
Don't actually display the pages (dry run)
-D
Both display and print debugging info
-f
Equivalent to `whatis`
-F--preformat
Format only, do not display
-h
Print a help message and exit
-k
Equivalent to apropos
-K
Search for a given string in all pages
-m
Specify an alternate set of pages to search based on the system name given <system>
-p
Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or troff <preprocessors>
-t
Use `/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc -c` to format the page
-w--path
Print the location of files that would be displayed
-W
Print file locations, one per line
ArgumentsPositional, in order
<value>
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