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|--wild‐
       card] [--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 [-?V]

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 ("1 1p 8 2 3 3p 4 5 6 7 9 0p tcl n l p o 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x  6x  7x
       8x"  by  default,  unless  overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/man_db.conf), 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, ENVIRONMENT,  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 running 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  exclu‐
       sive 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 apro‐
           pos printf.

       man -f smail
           Lookup the manual pages referenced by smail and print out the short descriptions of any found.  Equivalent to whatis 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) contains, 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 consis‐
       tent, which can obviate the need to manually run software 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 else‐
       where.  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  func‐
       tions.   To  activate  such  support,  it is necessary to set either $LC_MESSAGES, $LANG or another system dependent 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 ini‐
       tially 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  fil‐
       tered 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 back‐
       ground.

       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 preprocessor string.  To contain a valid preproces‐
       sor 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.  Alternatively, if an executable pro‐
       gram  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 argu‐
              ment 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, --path, --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  with‐
              out 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 environment 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  $MAN‐
              PATH 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 section, 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  sec‐
              tion  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 expression, 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 apro‐
              pos(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 wildcard, 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 less.  This option overrides the $MANPAGER environment variable, 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.

              The $MANLESS environment variable described below may be used to set a default prompt string if none is supplied on the command line.

       -7, --ascii
              When viewing a pure ascii(7) manual page on a 7 bit terminal or terminal emulator, some  characters  may  not  display  correctly  when  using  the
              latin1(7)  device description with GNU nroff.  This option allows pure ascii manual pages to be displayed 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 necessary.  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 necessary 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 justified only to the left  mar‐
              gin, 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  respec‐
              tively.

       -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
       -?, --help
              Print a help message and exit.

       --usage
              Print a short usage 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.
              The default is "1 1p 8 2 3 3p 4 5 6 7 9 0p tcl n l p o 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x 8x", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/man_db.conf.

       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 display the manual page.   By
              default, less 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, its value will be used as the default prompt string for the less pager, as if it had been passed using the -r option (so any
              occurrences of the text $MAN_PN will be expanded in the same way).  For example, if you want to set the prompt string unconditionally to “my prompt
              string”, set $MANLESS to ‘-Psmy prompt string’.  Using the -r option overrides this environment variable.

       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 envi‐
              ronment 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 for‐
              matted with a line length appropriate to the current terminal (using the value of $COLUMNS, an ioctl(2) if available, or falling back to 80 charac‐
              ters  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 discarded 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 formatting 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 produce 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.   How‐
              ever, 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 message locale.  man will
              display its messages in that locale (if available).  See setlocale(3) for precise details.

FILES
       /etc/man_db.conf
              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 (jwe@che.utexas.edu).

       Dec 23 1992: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) applied bug fixes supplied by Willem Kasdorp (wkasdo@nikhefk.nikef.nl).

       30th  April 1994 – 23rd February 2000: Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) has been developing and maintaining this package with the help of a few dedicated
       people.

       30th October 1996 – 30th March 2001: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> maintained and enhanced this package for the Debian project, with the help  of
       all the community.

       31st March 2001 – present day: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> is now developing and maintaining man-db.

2.7.5                                                                       2015-11-06                                                                     MAN(1)