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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/man/man.1')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index 820d6a5b33a9..707677ccce06 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .Nd display online manual documentation pages .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm -.Op Fl adho +.Op Fl adhlo .Op Fl t | w .Op Fl M Ar manpath .Op Fl P Ar pager @@ -144,6 +144,15 @@ Search names and descriptions of all manual pages for an extended regular .Ar expression , emulating basic functionality of .Xr apropos 1 . +.It Fl l +Interpret all arguments as absolute or relative filename(s) +of the manual page(s) to display. +No search is done and the options +.Fl M , +.Fl m , +and +.Fl S +are ignored. .It Fl m Ar arch Ns Op : Ns Ar machine Override the default architecture and machine settings allowing lookup of other platform specific manual pages. @@ -269,12 +278,15 @@ will search the following paths when considering section 4 manual pages in .Pa /usr/share/man/man4 .El .Ss Displaying Specific Manual Files -The +For compatibility reasons, .Nm -utility also supports displaying a specific manual page if passed a path -to the file as long as it contains a +will interpret any argument containing at least one .Ql / -character. +character as an absolute or relative path to a manual page to be +displayed. +This heuristic, made redundant by the more widely supported +.Fl l +option, is now deprecated and may be removed in future releases. .Sh ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables affect the execution of .Nm : @@ -398,7 +410,7 @@ manual page: .Pp Show a manual page in the current working directory: .Pp -.Dl $ man ./man.1 +.Dl $ man -l man.1 .Pp Show the location of manual pages in sections 1 and 8 which contain the word .Ql arm : |