From df965a6829f058b7a9999c39bc229616520645c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Fernando=20Apestegu=C3=ADa?= Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:55:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man(1): Add EXAMPLES section Add some examples showing the use of the flags: a, k, P, w Reviewed by: gbe@, yuripv@ Approved by: manpages (gbe@) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27545 --- usr.bin/man/man.1 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index 89bef50d718a..79821c405416 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -357,6 +357,41 @@ Local configuration files. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +Show the manual page for +.Xr stat 2 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ man 2 stat +.Ed +.Pp +Show all manual pages for +.Ql stat . +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ man -a stat +.Ed +.Pp +List manual pages which match the regular expression either in the title or in +the body: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ man -k '\e.*archive' +.Ed +.Pp +Show the manual page for +.Xr ls 1 +and use +.Xr cat 1 +as pager: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ man -P cat ls +.Ed +.Pp +Show the location of the +.Xr ls 1 +manual page: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ man -w ls +.Ed +.Pp .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr intro 1 ,