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MAN(1) General Commands Manual MAN(1) NAME man -- print manual pages SYNOPSIS man [section] name man -k word DESCRIPTION man prints the manual page name to standard output. With section (a digit, 1 to 9) it looks only in that section; otherwise it searches the sections in the order 1, 8, 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 4, 9 and prints the first page it finds. With -k it prints the index line of every page whose name or one-line description contains word, ignoring ASCII case. The pages are plain text. They are written in mdoc, the BSD manual page macro language, and rendered on the build host, with a pinned GNU groff, when the system image is built; ABSD itself has no roff formatter and no pager. The page is copied to standard output unchanged; to read part of a long page, pipe it through head or tail, for example `man afterboot | head -n 40'. A page name contains only letters, digits, `.', `_', and `-', and does not start with `.'; anything else, such as a path, is refused. There are no other options and no MANPATH. FILES /share/man/catS/name.0 the rendered page name of section S /share/man/whatis the index -k searches: one line per page, `name(S) - description' /share is mounted read-only in every SSH session. EXIT STATUS 0 when a page, or at least one index line, was printed; 1 when there is no such page, nothing matched, or a file could not be read; 2 for a usage error or an invalid page name. When the reader of its output goes away (`man intro | head -n 5') man stops at once, silently, with status 1; there is no signal to stop it. EXAMPLES absd$ man 7 handles absd$ man -k file filesystem(7) - the ABSD filesystem and its file server absd$ man nosuchpage man: no entry for nosuchpage in the manual absd-sh: man: exit status 1 DIAGNOSTICS man: no entry for NAME in the manual No section has a page of that name; with a section given, "in section S of the manual". man: /share/man: ...: no manual is visible to this process The process has no view of /share, for example under `nofs man intro'. SEE ALSO intro(1) ABSD September 27, 2026 MAN(1)