Add the ability to display specific manual pages if passed on the

commandline. This mirrors the old (undocumented) GNU man functionality.
Also document this feature in the implementation notes section of
the manpage.

Submitted by:	arundel
Approved by:	wes (mentor implicit)

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.sh b/usr.bin/man/man.sh
index cca7638cf082..454a3c31379f 100755
--- a/usr.bin/man/man.sh
+++ b/usr.bin/man/man.sh
@@ -356,6 +356,20 @@ man_display_page() {
 man_find_and_display() {
 	local found_page locpath p path sect
 
+	# Check to see if it's a file. But only if it has a '/' in
+	# the filename.
+	case "$1" in
+	*/*)	if [ -f "$1" -a -r "$1" ]; then
+			decho "Found a usable page, displaying that"
+			found_page=yes
+			unset use_cat
+			manpage="$1"
+			man_display_page
+			return
+		fi
+		;;
+	esac
+
 	IFS=:
 	for sect in $MANSECT; do
 		decho "Searching section $sect" 2