JMAN(1) BSD General Commands Manual JMAN(1)NAMEjman — format and display the on-line Japanese and/or original (English)
manual pages
SYNOPSISjman [-adfhktow] [-m system] [-p string] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]
[section] name ...
DESCRIPTION
Jman formats and displays the on-line Japanese manual pages. This ver‐
sion knows about the MANPATH and PAGER environment variables, so you can
have your own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program
you like to display the formatted pages. If section is specified, jman
only looks in that section of the manual. You may also specify the order
to search the sections for entries and which preprocessors to run on the
source files via command line options or environment variables. If
enabled by the system administrator, formatted man pages will also be
compressed with the `/usr/bin/gzip -nf -9' command to save space. You
have to set the environment variable LC_CTYPE (or LANG) to ja_JP.eucJP if
you prefer to consult Japanese manual pages.
The options are as follows:
-M path Specify an alternate manpath. By default, jman uses jmanpath
to determine the path to search. This option overrides the
MANPATH environment variable.
-P pager Specify which pager to use. By default, jman uses jless -s,
This option overrides the PAGER environment variable.
-S list List is a colon separated list of manual sections to search.
This option overrides the MANSECT environment variable.
-a By default, jman will exit after displaying the first manual
page it finds. Using this option forces jman to display all
the manual pages that match name, not just the first.
-d Don't actually display the man pages, but do print gobs of
debugging information.
-f Equivalent to whatis.
-h Print a one line help message and exit.
-k Equivalent to apropos.
-m system Specify an alternate set of man pages to search based on the
system name given.
-o Restrain from searching and displaying non-original (non-Eng‐
lish) man pages, regardless of the value of the environment
variavble LC_CTYPE (or LANG).
-p string Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or
troff. Not all installations will have a full set of pre‐
processors. 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.
-t Use /usr/local/bin/groff -S -man -dlang=ja_JP.eucJP to format
the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output
from /usr/local/bin/groff -S -man -dlang=ja_JP.eucJP may need
to be passed through some filter or another before being
printed.
-w Don't actually display the man pages, but do print the loca‐
tion(s) of the files that would be formatted or displayed.
ENVIRONMENT
MANPATH If MANPATH is set, its value is used as the path to search
for manual pages.
LC_CTYPE
LANG LC_CTYPE or LANG specify the language of the manual pages you
prefer to consult.
MACHINE As some manual pages are intended only for specific architec‐
tures, jman searches any subdirectories, with the same name
as the current architecture, in every directory which it
searches. Machine specific areas are checked before general
areas. The current machine type may be overridden by setting
the environment variable MACHINE to the name of a specific
architecture.
MANROFFSEQ If MANROFFSEQ is set, its value is used to determine the set
of preprocessors run before running nroff or troff. By
default, pages are passed through the table preprocessor
before nroff.
MANSECT If MANSECT is set, its value is used to determine which man‐
ual sections to search.
PAGER If PAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program
to use to display the man page. By default, jless -s is
used.
EXAMPLES
Normally, to look at the relevant manpage information for getopt, one
would use:
man getopt
However, when referring to a specific section of the manual, such as
getopt(3), one would use:
man 3 getopt
SEE ALSOjapropos(1), jmanpath(1), jwhatis(1), jless(1), groff(1), man(7), mdoc(7)BUGS
The -t option only works if a troff-like program is installed.
BSD June 11, 2001 BSD
