man man

MAN(1)    Manual pager utils   MAN(1)






NAME
       man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals


SYNOPSIS
       man  [-C  file] [-d]  [-D] [--warnings[=warnings]] [-R encoding] [-L locale] [-m system[,...]] [-M path] [-S list] [-e extension]
       [-i|-I] [--regex|--wildcard] [--names-only] [-a] [-u] [--no-subpages] [-P pager] [-r prompt] [-7] [-E encoding] [--no-hyphenation]
       [--no-justification] [-p string] [-t] [-T[device]] [-H[browser]] [-X[dpi]] [-Z] [[section] page ...] ...
       man -k [apropos options] regexp ...
       man -K [-w|-W] [-S list] [-i|-I] [--regex] [section] term ...
       man -f [whatis options] page ...
       man -l [-C file] [-d] [-D] [--warnings[=warnings]] [-R encoding] [-L locale] [-P pager] [-r prompt] [-7] [-E encoding] [-p string]
       [-t] [-T[device]] [-H[browser]] [-X[dpi]] [-Z] file ...
       man -w|-W [-C file] [-d] [-D] page ...
       man -c [-C file] [-d] [-D] page ...
       man [-hV]


DESCRIPTION
       man is the system's manual pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of a program,  utility  or  function.   The
       manual  page  associated with each of these arguments is then found and displayed. A section, if provided, will direct man to look
       only in that section of the manual.  The default action is to search in all of the available  sections, following  a  pre-defined
       order and to show only the first page found, even if page exists in several sections.


       The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.




       1   Executable programs or shell commands
       2   System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
       3   Library calls (functions within program libraries)
       4   Special files (usually found in /dev)
       5   File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
       6   Games
       7   Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
       8   System administration commands (usually only for root)
       9   Kernel routines [Non standard]



       A manual page consists of several sections.


       Conventional  section  names include NAME, SYNOPSIS, CONFIGURATION, DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, EXIT STATUS, RETURN VALUE, ERRORS, ENVI‐
       RONMENT, FILES, VERSIONS, CONFORMING TO, NOTES, BUGS, EXAMPLE, AUTHORS, and SEE ALSO.


       The following conventions apply to the SYNOPSIS section and can be used as a guide in other sections.




       bold text  type exactly as shown.
       italic text  replace with appropriate argument.
       [-abc]  any or all arguments within [ ] are optional.
       -a|-b  options delimited by | cannot be used together.
       argument ...  argument is repeatable.
       [expression] ...   entire expression within [ ] is repeatable.


       Exact rendering may vary depending on the output device.  For instance, man will usually not be able to render italics  when  run‐
       ning in a terminal, and will typically use underlined or coloured text instead.


       The  command  or  function illustration is a pattern that should match all possible invocations.  In some cases it is advisable to
       illustrate several exclusive invocations as is shown in the SYNOPSIS section of this manual page.


EXAMPLES
       man ls
  Display the manual page for the item (program) ls.


       man -a intro
  Display, in succession, all of the available intro manual pages contained within the manual.  It is possible to  quit  between
  successive displays or skip any of them.


       man -t alias | lpr -Pps
  Format  the manual page referenced by `alias', usually a shell manual page, into the default troff or groff format and pipe it
  to the printer named ps.  The default output for groff is usually PostScript.  man --help should advise as to which processor
  is bound to the -t option.


       man -l -Tdvi ./foo.1x.gz > ./foo.1x.dvi
  This  command  will decompress and format the nroff source manual page ./foo.1x.gz into a device independent (dvi) file.  The
  redirection is necessary as the -T flag causes output to be directed to stdout with no pager.  The output could be viewed with
  a program such as xdvi or further processed into PostScript using a program such as dvips.


       man -k printf
  Search  the short  descriptions  and  manual page names for the keyword printf as regular expression.  Print out any matches.
  Equivalent to apropos -r printf.


       man -f smail
  Lookup the manual pages referenced by smail and print out the short descriptions of any found.  Equivalent to whatis -r smail.


OVERVIEW
       Many options are available to man in order to give as much flexibility as possible to the user. Changes can be made to the search
       path, section order, output processor, and other behaviours and operations detailed below.


       If  set,  various environment variables are interrogated to determine the operation of man.  It is possible to set the `catch all'
       variable $MANOPT to any string in command line format with the exception that any spaces used as part of an option's argument must
       be  escaped  (preceded by a backslash). man will parse $MANOPT prior to parsing its own command line.  Those options requiring an
       argument will be overridden by the same options found on the command line.  To reset all of the options set in $MANOPT, -D can  be
       specified  as  the  initial  command line option.  This will allow man to `forget' about the options specified in $MANOPT although
       they must still have been valid.


       The manual pager utilities packaged as man-db make extensive use of index database caches.  These caches contain information  such
       as  where  each manual page can be found on the filesystem and what its whatis (short one line description of the man page) con‐
       tains, and allow man to run faster than if it had to search the filesystem each time to find  the  appropriate  manual  page.   If
       requested using the -u option, man will ensure that the caches remain consistent, which can obviate the need to manually run soft‐
       ware to update traditional whatis text databases.


       If man cannot find a mandb initiated index database for a particular manual page hierarchy, it will still search for the requested
       manual  pages,  although  file  globbing will be necessary to search within that hierarchy.  If whatis or apropos fails to find an
       index it will try to extract information from a traditional whatis database instead.


       These utilities support compressed source nroff files having, by default, the extensions of .Z, .z and .gz.   It  is  possible  to
       deal with any compression extension, but this information must be known at compile time.  Also, by default, any cat pages produced
       are compressed using gzip.  Each `global' manual page hierarchy such as /usr/share/man or /usr/X11R6/man may have any directory as
       its cat page hierarchy. Traditionally the cat pages are stored under the same hierarchy as the man pages, but for reasons such as
       those specified in the File Hierarchy Standard (FHS), it may be better to store them elsewhere. For details on how  to do  this,
       please read manpath(5). For details on why to do this, read the standard.


       International  support  is available with this package. Native language manual pages are accessible (if available on your system)
       via use of locale functions.  To activate such support, it is necessary to set either $LC_MESSAGES, $LANG or another system depen‐
       dent environment variable to your language locale, usually specified in the POSIX 1003.1 based format:


       <language>[_<territory>[.<character-set>[,<version>]]]


       If the desired page is available in your locale, it will be displayed in lieu of the standard (usually American English) page.


       Support for  international  message  catalogues  is  also featured in this package and can be activated in the same way, again if
       available.  If you find that the manual pages and message catalogues supplied with this package are not available in  your  native
       language and you would like to supply them, please contact the maintainer who will be coordinating such activity.


       For  information regarding other features and extensions available with this manual pager, please read the documents supplied with
       the package.


DEFAULTS
       man will search for the desired manual pages within the index database caches. If the -u option is  given,  a  cache  consistency
       check is performed to ensure the databases accurately reflect the filesystem.  If this option is always given, it is not generally
       necessary to run mandb after the caches are initially created, unless a cache becomes corrupt. However,  the  cache  consistency
       check  can  be  slow on systems with many manual pages installed, so it is not performed by default, and system administrators may
       wish to run mandb every week or so to keep the database caches fresh.  To forestall problems caused by outdated caches, man  will
       fall back to file globbing if a cache lookup fails, just as it would if no cache was present.


       Once  a manual page has been located, a check is performed to find out if a relative preformatted `cat' file already exists and is
       newer than the nroff file.  If it does and is, this preformatted file is (usually) decompressed and then displayed, via use  of a
       pager. The  pager can be specified in a number of ways, or else will fall back to a default is used (see option -P for details).
       If no cat is found or is older than the nroff file, the nroff is filtered through various programs and is shown immediately.


       If a cat file can be produced (a relative cat directory exists and has appropriate permissions), man will compress and  store  the
       cat file in the background.


       The  filters  are  deciphered by a number of means. Firstly, the command line option -p or the environment variable $MANROFFSEQ is
       interrogated. If -p was not used and the environment variable was not set, the initial line of the nroff file is parsed for a pre‐
       processor string.  To contain a valid preprocessor string, the first line must resemble


       '\" <string>


       where string can be any combination of letters described by option -p below.


       If none of the above methods provide any filter information, a default set is used.


       A  formatting  pipeline is  formed from the filters and the primary formatter (nroff or [tg]roff with -t) and executed.  Alterna‐
       tively, if an executable program mandb_nfmt (or mandb_tfmt with -t) exists in the man tree root, it is executed instead.  It  gets
       passed the manual source file, the preprocessor string, and optionally the device specified with -T or -E as arguments.


OPTIONS
       Non  argument  options  that  are  duplicated  either on the command line, in $MANOPT, or both, are not harmful.  For options that
       require an argument, each duplication will override the previous argument value.


   General options
       -C file, --config-file=file
     Use this user configuration file rather than the default of ~/.manpath.


       -d, --debug
     Print debugging information.


       -D, --default
     This option is normally issued as the very first option and resets man's behaviour to its default.  Its  use  is to  reset
     those options that may have been set in $MANOPT. Any options that follow -D will have their usual effect.


       --warnings[=warnings]
     Enable  warnings from groff.  This may be used to perform sanity checks on the source text of manual pages.  warnings is a
     comma-separated list of warning names; if it is not supplied, the default is "mac".  See the “Warnings” node in info  groff
     for a list of available warning names.


   Main modes of operation
       -f, --whatis
     Equivalent to whatis.  Display a short description from the manual page, if available. See whatis(1) for details.


       -k, --apropos
     Equivalent to apropos.  Search the short manual page descriptions for keywords and display any matches.  See apropos(1) for
     details.


       -K, --global-apropos
     Search for text in all manual pages.  This is a brute-force search, and is likely to take some time; if you can, you should
     specify  a  section  to  reduce  the  number  of pages  that need to be searched.  Search terms may be simple strings (the
     default), or regular expressions if the --regex option is used.


       -l, --local-file
     Activate `local' mode.  Format and display local manual files instead of searching through the system's manual  collection.
     Each  manual page argument will be interpreted as an nroff source file in the correct format.  No cat file is produced.  If
     '-' is listed as one of the arguments, input will be taken from stdin.  When this option is not used, and man fails to find
     the  page  required, before displaying the error message, it attempts to act as if this option was supplied, using the name
     as a filename and looking for an exact match.


       -w, --where, --location
     Don't actually display the manual pages, but do print the location(s) of the source nroff files that would be formatted.


       -W, --where-cat, --location-cat
     Don't actually display the manual pages, but do print the location(s) of the cat files that would be displayed.  If -w  and
     -W are both specified, print both separated by a space.


       -c, --catman
     This option is not for general use and should only be used by the catman program.


       -R encoding, --recode=encoding
     Instead  of  formatting  the  manual  page in the usual way, output its source converted to the specified encoding.  If you
     already know the encoding of the source file, you can also use manconv(1) directly.  However, this  option  allows  you  to
     convert  several manual pages to a single encoding without having to explicitly state the encoding of each, provided that
     they were already installed in a structure similar to a manual page hierarchy.


   Finding manual pages
       -L locale, --locale=locale
     man will normally determine your current locale by a call to the C function setlocale(3) which interrogates  various  envi‐
     ronment  variables,  possibly  including $LC_MESSAGES  and  $LANG.  To temporarily override the determined value, use this
     option to supply a locale string directly to man.  Note that it will not take effect until the search  for  pages  actually
     begins.  Output such as the help message will always be displayed in the initially determined locale.


       -m system[,...], --systems=system[,...]
     If  this system has access to other operating system's manual pages, they can be accessed using this option.  To search for
     a manual page from NewOS's manual page collection, use the option -m NewOS.


     The system specified can be a combination of comma delimited operating system names.  To include a  search  of  the  native
     operating system's manual pages, include the system name man in the argument string.  This option will override the $SYSTEM
     environment variable.


       -M path, --manpath=path
     Specify an alternate manpath to use.  By default, man uses manpath derived code to determine  the  path  to  search.   This
     option overrides the $MANPATH environment variable and causes option -m to be ignored.


     A path specified as a manpath must be the root of a manual page hierarchy structured into sections as described in the man-
     db manual (under "The manual page system").  To view manual pages outside such hierarchies, see the -l option.


       -S list, -s list, --sections=list
     List is a colon- or comma-separated list of `order specific' manual sections to search.  This option overrides the $MANSECT
     environment variable.  (The -s spelling is for compatibility with System V.)


       -e sub-extension, --extension=sub-extension
     Some systems incorporate large packages of manual pages, such as those that accompany the Tcl package, into the main manual
     page hierarchy.  To get around the problem of having two manual pages with the same name such as exit(3),  the  Tcl  pages
     were  usually  all  assigned to section l.  As this is unfortunate, it is now possible to put the pages in the correct sec‐
     tion, and to assign a specific `extension' to them, in this case, exit(3tcl).  Under normal  operation,  man  will  display
     exit(3)  in  preference  to exit(3tcl).  To negotiate this situation and to avoid having to know which section the page you
     require resides in, it is now possible to give man a sub-extension string indicating which package the page must belong to.
     Using the above example, supplying the option -e tcl to man will restrict the search to pages having an extension of *tcl.


       -i, --ignore-case
     Ignore case when searching for manual pages.  This is the default.


       -I, --match-case
     Search for manual pages case-sensitively.


       --regex
     Show  all  pages with any part of either their names or their descriptions matching each page argument as a regular expres‐
     sion, as with apropos(1).  Since there is usually no reasonable way to pick a "best" page  when  searching  for  a  regular
     expression, this option implies -a.


       --wildcard
     Show  all  pages with  any  part of either their names or their descriptions matching each page argument using shell-style
     wildcards, as with apropos(1) --wildcard.  The page argument must match the entire name or description, or  match  on  word
     boundaries  in  the description. Since there is usually no reasonable way to pick a "best" page when searching for a wild‐
     card, this option implies -a.


       --names-only
     If the --regex or --wildcard option is used, match only page names, not page descriptions, as with  whatis(1).   Otherwise,
     no effect.


       -a, --all
     By default, man will exit after displaying the most suitable manual page it finds.  Using this option forces man to display
     all the manual pages with names that match the search criteria.


       -u, --update
     This option causes man to perform an `inode level' consistency check on its database caches to  ensure  that  they  are  an
     accurate representation of the filesystem.  It will only have a useful effect if man is installed with the setuid bit set.


       --no-subpages
     By default, man will try to interpret pairs of manual page names given on the command line as equivalent to a single manual
     page name containing a hyphen or an underscore.  This supports the common pattern of programs that implement  a  number  of
     subcommands,  allowing  them to provide manual pages for each that can be accessed using similar syntax as would be used to
     invoke the subcommands themselves.  For example:


$ man -aw git diff
/usr/share/man/man1/git-diff.1.gz


     To disable this behaviour, use the --no-subpages option.


$ man -aw --no-subpages git diff
/usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Git.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/diff.1.gz


   Controlling formatted output
       -P pager, --pager=pager
     Specify which output pager to use.  By default, man uses pager -s.  This option overrides the $MANPAGER  environment  vari‐
     able, which in turn overrides the $PAGER environment variable.  It is not used in conjunction with -f or -k.


     The  value may be a simple command name or a command with arguments, and may use shell quoting (backslashes, single quotes,
     or double quotes).  It may not use pipes to connect multiple commands; if you need that, use a wrapper  script,  which  may
     take the file to display either as an argument or on standard input.


       -r prompt, --prompt=prompt
     If  a  recent  version  of  less is  used as the pager, man will attempt to set its prompt and some sensible options.  The
     default prompt looks like


      Manual page name(sec) line x


     where name denotes the manual page name, sec denotes the section it was found under and x the current line number.  This is
     achieved by using the $LESS environment variable.


     Supplying  -r  with a string will override this default. The string may contain the text $MAN_PN which will be expanded to
     the name of the current manual page and its section name surrounded by `(' and `)'.  The string used to produce the default
     could be expressed as


     \ Manual\ page\ \$MAN_PN\ ?ltline\ %lt?L/%L.:
     byte\ %bB?s/%s..?\ (END):?pB\ %pB\\%..
     (press h for help or q to quit)


     It  is  broken  into  three lines here for the sake of readability only. For its meaning see the less(1) manual page.  The
     prompt string is first evaluated by the shell.  All double quotes, back-quotes  and  backslashes in  the  prompt  must  be
     escaped  by  a preceding backslash.  The prompt string may end in an escaped $ which may be followed by further options for
     less.  By default man sets the -ix8 options.


     If you want to override man's prompt string processing completely, use the $MANLESS environment variable described below.


       -7, --ascii
     When viewing a pure ascii(7) manual page on a 7 bit terminal or terminal emulator, some characters  may  not  display  cor‐
     rectly  when  using the latin1(7) device description with GNU nroff.  This option allows pure ascii manual pages to be dis‐
     played in ascii with the latin1 device.  It will not translate any latin1 text.  The following table shows the translations
     performed: some parts of it may only be displayed properly when using GNU nroff's latin1(7) device.




     Description    Octal   latin1   ascii
     ─────────────────────────────────────────────


     continuation hyphen    255      ‐        -
     bullet (middle dot)    267      ·        o
     acute accent     264      ´        '
     multiplication sign    327      ×        x


     If  the  latin1  column displays correctly, your terminal may be set up for latin1 characters and this option is not neces‐
     sary.  If the latin1 and ascii columns are identical, you are reading this page using this option or  man  did  not  format
     this  page  using  the  latin1 device description.  If the latin1 column is missing or corrupt, you may need to view manual
     pages with this option.


     This option is ignored when using options -t, -H, -T, or -Z and may be useless for nroff other than GNU's.


       -E encoding, --encoding=encoding
     Generate output for a character encoding other than the default. For backward compatibility,  encoding  may  be an  nroff
     device such as ascii, latin1, or utf8 as well as a true character encoding such as UTF-8.


       --no-hyphenation, --nh
     Normally, nroff will automatically hyphenate text at line breaks even in words that do not contain hyphens, if it is neces‐
     sary to do so to lay out words on a line without excessive spacing.  This option disables automatic hyphenation, so  words
     will only be hyphenated if they already contain hyphens.


     If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent nroff from hyphenating a word at an inappropriate point, do not
     use this option, but consult the nroff documentation instead; for instance, you can put "\%" inside a word to indicate that
     it may be hyphenated at that point, or put "\%" at the start of a word to prevent it from being hyphenated.


       --no-justification, --nj
     Normally,  nroff will automatically justify text to both margins.  This option disables full justification, leaving justi‐
     fied only to the left margin, sometimes called "ragged-right" text.


     If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent nroff from justifying  certain  paragraphs,  do  not use  this
     option,  but consult the nroff documentation instead; for instance, you can use the ".na", ".nf", ".fi", and ".ad" requests
     to temporarily disable adjusting and filling.


       -p string, --preprocessor=string
     Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or troff/groff.  Not all installations will have a  full  set  of
     preprocessors.   Some of the preprocessors and the letters used to designate them are: eqn (e), grap (g), pic (p), tbl (t),
     vgrind (v), refer (r).  This option overrides the $MANROFFSEQ environment variable.  zsoelim is  always  run  as the  very
     first preprocessor.


       -t, --troff
     Use groff -mandoc to format the manual page to stdout.  This option is not required in conjunction with -H, -T, or -Z.


       -T[device], --troff-device[=device]
     This  option  is used to change groff (or possibly troff's) output to be suitable for a device other than the default.  It
     implies -t.  Examples (provided with Groff-1.17) include dvi, latin1, ps, utf8, X75 and X100.


       -H[browser], --html[=browser]
     This option will cause groff to produce HTML output, and will display that output in a web browser.  The choice of  browser
     is  determined  by the optional browser argument if one is provided, by the $BROWSER environment variable, or by a compile-
     time default if that is unset (usually lynx).  This option implies -t, and will only work with GNU troff.


       -X[dpi], --gxditview[=dpi]
     This option displays the output of groff in a graphical window using the gxditview program.  The dpi (dots per inch) may be
     75,  75-12,  100,  or 100-12, defaulting to 75; the -12 variants use a 12-point base font.  This option implies -T with the
     X75, X75-12, X100, or X100-12 device respectively.


       -Z, --ditroff
     groff will run troff and then use an appropriate post-processor to produce output suitable for the chosen device.  If groff
     -mandoc is groff, this option is passed to groff and will suppress the use of a post-processor.  It implies -t.


   Getting help
       -h, --help
     Print a help message and exit.


       -V, --version
     Display version information.


EXIT STATUS
       0      Successful program execution.


       1      Usage, syntax or configuration file error.


       2      Operational error.


       3      A child process returned a non-zero exit status.


       16     At least one of the pages/files/keywords didn't exist or wasn't matched.


ENVIRONMENT
       MANPATH
     If $MANPATH is set, its value is used as the path to search for manual pages.


       MANROFFOPT
     The contents of $MANROFFOPT are added to the command line every time man invokes the formatter (nroff, troff, or groff).


       MANROFFSEQ
     If  $MANROFFSEQ  is  set,  its  value  is used to determine the set of preprocessors to pass each manual page through.  The
     default preprocessor list is system dependent.


       MANSECT
     If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections and it is used to determine which  manual  sections  to
     search and in what order.


       MANPAGER, PAGER
     If  $MANPAGER or $PAGER is set ($MANPAGER is used in preference), its value is used as the name of the program used to dis‐
     play the manual page.  By default, pager -s is used.


     The value may be a simple command name or a command with arguments, and may use shell quoting (backslashes, single  quotes,
     or  double  quotes).   It may not use pipes to connect multiple commands; if you need that, use a wrapper script, which may
     take the file to display either as an argument or on standard input.


       MANLESS
     If $MANLESS is set, man will not perform any of its usual processing to  set  up a  prompt  string  for the  less  pager.
     Instead, the  value  of $MANLESS  will be copied verbatim into $LESS. For example, if you want to set the prompt string
     unconditionally to “my prompt string”, set $MANLESS to ‘-Psmy prompt string’.


       BROWSER
     If $BROWSER is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of commands, each of which in turn is used to try to  start  a  web
     browser  for  man  --html.   In  each  command,  %s  is replaced by a filename containing the HTML output from groff, %% is
     replaced by a single percent sign (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:).


       SYSTEM If $SYSTEM is set, it will have the same effect as if it had been specified as the argument to the -m option.


       MANOPT If $MANOPT is set, it will be parsed prior to man's command line and is expected to be in a similar format.  As all of  the
     other  man  specific  environment  variables  can  be  expressed as command line options, and are thus candidates for being
     included in $MANOPT it is expected that they will become obsolete.  N.B. All spaces that should be interpreted as  part  of
     an option's argument must be escaped.


       MANWIDTH
     If  $MANWIDTH  is  set, its value is used as the line length for which manual pages should be formatted. If it is not set,
     manual pages will be formatted with a line length appropriate to the current terminal (using an ioctl(2) if available,  the
     value  of  $COLUMNS,  or falling  back  to  80 characters if neither is available).  Cat pages will only be saved when the
     default formatting can be used, that is when the terminal line length is between 66 and 80 characters.


       MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING
     Normally, when output is not being directed to a terminal (such as to a file or a pipe), formatting  characters are  dis‐
     carded  to  make it  easier to read the result without special tools.  However, if $MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is set to any non-
     empty value, these formatting characters are retained.  This may be useful for wrappers around man that can interpret  for‐
     matting characters.


       MAN_KEEP_STDERR
     Normally,  when output is being directed to a terminal (usually to a pager), any error output from the command used to pro‐
     duce formatted versions of manual pages is discarded to avoid interfering with the pager's display.  Programs such as groff
     often  produce relatively minor error messages about typographical problems such as poor alignment, which are unsightly and
     generally confusing when displayed along with the manual page.  However, some  users  want  to  see  them  anyway,  so,  if
     $MAN_KEEP_STDERR is set to any non-empty value, error output will be displayed as usual.


       LANG, LC_MESSAGES
     Depending  on system and implementation, either or both of $LANG and $LC_MESSAGES will be interrogated for the current mes‐
     sage locale.  man will display its messages in that locale (if available).  See setlocale(3) for precise details.


FILES
       /etc/manpath.config
     man-db configuration file.


       /usr/share/man
     A global manual page hierarchy.


       /usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
     A traditional global index database cache.


       /var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
     An FHS compliant global index database cache.


SEE ALSO
       apropos(1), groff(1),  less(1), manpath(1),  nroff(1), troff(1),  whatis(1),  zsoelim(1),  setlocale(3),  manpath(5), ascii(7),
       latin1(7), man(7), catman(8), mandb(8), the man-db package manual, FSSTND


HISTORY
       1990, 1991 - Originally written by John W. Eaton ([email protected]).


       Dec 23 1992: Rik Faith ([email protected]) applied bug fixes supplied by Willem Kasdorp ([email protected]).


       30th  April 1994 - 23rd February 2000: Wilf. ([email protected]) has been developing and maintaining this package with the
       help of a few dedicated people.


       30th October 1996 - 30th March 2001: Fabrizio Polacco <[email protected]> maintained and enhanced this package  for  the  Debian
       project, with the help of all the community.


       31st March 2001 - present day: Colin Watson <[email protected]> is now developing and maintaining man-db.






2.6.1 2012-02-14   MAN(1)

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