+man: pull up the manual page for a command
+man echo
+ECHO(1) General Commands Manual ECHO(1)
+
+NAME
+ echo – write arguments to the standard output
+
+SYNOPSIS
+ echo [-n] [string ...]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ The echo utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank
+ (‘ ’) characters and followed by a newline (‘\n’) character, to the
+ standard output.
+
+ The following option is available:
+
+ -n Do not print the trailing newline character. This may also be
+ achieved by appending ‘\c’ to the end of the string, as is done by
+ iBCS2 compatible systems. Note that this option as well as the
+ effect of ‘\c’ are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
+ (“POSIX.1”) as amended by Cor. 1-2002. Applications aiming for
+ maximum portability are strongly encouraged to use printf(1) to
+ suppress the newline character.
+
+ Some shells may provide a builtin echo command which is similar or
+ identical to this utility. Most notably, the builtin echo in sh(1) does
+ not accept the -n option. Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
+
+EXIT STATUS
+ The echo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+
+SEE ALSO
+ builtin(1), csh(1), printf(1), sh(1)
+
+STANDARDS
+ The echo utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”) as amended
+ by Cor. 1-2002.
+
+macOS 13.2 April 12, 2003 macOS 13.2
+
+
+Manual pages
+Use the arrow keys to navigate the manual and press q to
+close it
+MAN(1) General Commands Manual MAN(1)
+
+NAME
+ man, apropos, whatis – display online manual documentation pages
+
+SYNOPSIS
+ man [-adho] [-t | -w] [-M manpath] [-P pager] [-S mansect]
+ [-m arch[:machine]] [-p [eprtv]] [mansect] page ...
+
+ man -f [-d] [-M manpath] [-P pager] [-S mansect] keyword ...
+ whatis [-d] [-s mansect] keyword ...
+
+ man -k [-d] [-M manpath] [-P pager] [-S mansect] keyword ...
+ apropos [-d] [-s mansect] keyword ...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ The man utility finds and displays online manual documentation pages. If
+ mansect is provided, man restricts the search to the specific section of
+ the manual.
+
+ The sections of the manual are:
+ 1. General Commands Manual
+ 2. System Calls Manual
+ 3. Library Functions Manual
+ 4. Kernel Interfaces Manual
+ 5. File Formats Manual
+ 6. Games Manual
+ 7. Miscellaneous Information Manual
+ 8. System Manager's Manual
+ 9. Kernel Developer's Manual
+
+ Options that man understands:
+
+ -M manpath
+ Forces a specific colon separated manual path instead of the
+ default search path. See manpath(1). Overrides the MANPATH
+ environment variable.
+
+ -P pager
+ Use specified pager. Defaults to “less -sR” if color support is
+ enabled, or “less -s”. Overrides the MANPAGER environment
+ variable, which in turn overrides the PAGER environment variable.
+
+ -S mansect
+ Restricts manual sections searched to the specified colon
+ delimited list. Defaults to “1:8:2:3:3lua:n:4:5:6:7:9:l”.
+ Overrides the MANSECT environment variable.
+
+ -a Display all manual pages instead of just the first found for each
+ page argument.
+
+ -d Print extra debugging information. Repeat for increased
+ verbosity. Does not display the manual page.
+
+ -f Emulate whatis(1). Note that only a subset of options will have
+ any effect when man is invoked in this mode. See the below
+ description of whatis options for details.
+
+ -h Display short help message and exit.
+
+ -k Emulate apropos(1). Note that only a subset of options will have
+ any effect when man is invoked in this mode. See the below
+ description of apropos options for details.
+
+ -m arch[:machine]
+ Override the default architecture and machine settings allowing
+ lookup of other platform specific manual pages. This option is
+ accepted, but not implemented, on macOS.
+
+ -o Force use of non-localized manual pages. See IMPLEMENTATION
+ NOTES for how locale specific searches work. Overrides the
+ LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables.
+
+ -p [eprtv]
+ Use the list of given preprocessors before running nroff(1) or
+ troff(1). Valid preprocessors arguments:
+
+ e eqn(1)
+ p pic(1)
+ r refer(1)
+ t tbl(1)
+ v vgrind(1)
+
+ Overrides the MANROFFSEQ environment variable.
+
+ -t Send manual page source through troff(1) allowing transformation
+ of the manual pages to other formats.
+
+ -w Display the location of the manual page instead of the contents
+ of the manual page.
+
+ Options that apropos and whatis understand:
+
+ -d Same as the -d option for man.
+
+ -s Same as the -S option for man.
+
+ When man is operated in apropos or whatis emulation mode, only a subset
+ of its options will be honored. Specifically, -d, -M, -P, and -S have
+ equivalent functionality in the apropos and whatis implementation
+ provided. The MANPATH, MANSECT, and MANPAGER environment variables will
+ similarly be honored.
+
+IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
+ Locale Specific Searches
+ The man utility supports manual pages in different locales. The search
+ behavior is dictated by the first of three environment variables with a
+ nonempty string: LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG. If set, man will search for
+ locale specific manual pages using the following logic:
+
+ lang_country.charset
+ lang.charset
+ en.charset
+
+ For example, if LC_ALL is set to “ja_JP.eucJP”, man will search the
+ following paths when considering section 1 manual pages in
+ /usr/share/man:
+
+ /usr/share/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1
+ /usr/share/man/ja.eucJP/man1
+ /usr/share/man/en.eucJP/man1
+ /usr/share/man/man1
+
+ Displaying Specific Manual Files
+ The man utility also supports displaying a specific manual page if passed
+ a path to the file as long as it contains a ‘/’ character.
+
+ENVIRONMENT
+ The following environment variables affect the execution of man:
+
+ LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
+ Used to find locale specific manual pages. Valid values
+ can be found by running the locale(1) command. See
+ IMPLEMENTATION NOTES for details. Influenced by the -o
+ option.
+
+ MACHINE_ARCH, MACHINE
+ Used to find platform specific manual pages. If unset,
+ the output of “sysctl hw.machine_arch” and “sysctl
+ hw.machine” is used respectively. See IMPLEMENTATION
+ NOTES for details. Corresponds to the -m option.
+
+ MANPATH The standard search path used by man(1) may be changed by
+ specifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable.
+ Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are
+ ignored. Overridden by -M. If MANPATH begins with a
+ colon, it is appended to the default list; if it ends
+ with a colon, it is prepended to the default list; or if
+ it contains two adjacent colons, the standard search path
+ is inserted between the colons. If none of these
+ conditions are met, it overrides the standard search
+ path.
+
+ MANROFFSEQ Used to determine the preprocessors for the manual source
+ before running nroff(1) or troff(1). If unset, defaults
+ to tbl(1). Corresponds to the -p option.
+
+ MANSECT Restricts manual sections searched to the specified colon
+ delimited list. Corresponds to the -S option.
+
+ MANWIDTH If set to a numeric value, used as the width manpages
+ should be displayed. Otherwise, if set to a special
+ value “tty”, and output is to a terminal, the pages may
+ be displayed over the whole width of the screen.
+
+ MANCOLOR If set, enables color support.
+
+ MANPAGER Program used to display files.
+
+ If unset, and color support is enabled, “less -sR” is
+ used.
+
+ If unset, and color support is disabled, then PAGER is
+ used. If that has no value either, “less -s” is used.
+
+FILES
+ /etc/man.conf
+ System configuration file.
+ /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf
+ Local configuration files.
+
+EXIT STATUS
+ The man utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+
+EXAMPLES
+ Show the manual page for stat(2):
+
+ $ man 2 stat
+
+ Show all manual pages for ‘stat’.
+
+ $ man -a stat
+
+ List manual pages which match the regular expression either in the title
+ or in the body:
+
+ $ man -k '\<copy\>.*archive'
+
+ Show the manual page for ls(1) and use cat(1) as pager:
+
+ $ man -P cat ls
+
+ Show the location of the ls(1) manual page:
+
+ $ man -w ls
+
+SEE ALSO
+ apropos(1), intro(1), mandoc(1), manpath(1), whatis(1), intro(2),
+ intro(3), intro(3lua), intro(4), intro(5), man.conf(5), intro(6),
+ intro(7), mdoc(7), intro(8), intro(9)
+
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+
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