Update the document date after DES's updates, move the description of

the -b option below -a to maintain alphabetical order, and add a
missing ".It" before "Fl o".
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.\" From: @(#)sysctl.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 23, 1994
.Dd May 28, 2001
.Dt SYSCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
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List all the currently available non-opaque values.
This option is ignored if one or more variable names are specified on
the command line.
.It Fl b
Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
This is mostly useful with a single variable.
.It Fl N
Show only variable names, not their values.
This is particularly useful with shells that offer programmable
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize`
.Ed
.It Fl b
Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
This is mostly useful with a single variable.
.Fl o
.It Fl o
Show opaque variables (which are normally suppressed).
The format and length are printed, as well as a hex dump of the first
sixteen bytes of the value.