интерфейс к системным справочным руководствам (an interface to the system reference manuals)
Обзор (Overview)
Many options are available to man in order to give as much
flexibility as possible to the user. Changes can be made to the
search path, section order, output processor, and other
behaviours and operations detailed below.
If set, various environment variables are interrogated to
determine the operation of man. It is possible to set the
"catch-all" variable $MANOPT to any string in command line
format, with the exception that any spaces used as part of an
option's argument must be escaped (preceded by a backslash). man
will parse $MANOPT prior to parsing its own command line. Those
options requiring an argument will be overridden by the same
options found on the command line. To reset all of the options
set in $MANOPT, -D can be specified as the initial command line
option. This will allow man to "forget" about the options
specified in $MANOPT, although they must still have been valid.
Manual pages are normally stored in nroff(1) format under a
directory such as /usr/share/man. In some installations, there
may also be preformatted cat pages to improve performance. See
manpath(5) for details of where these files are stored.
This package supports manual pages in multiple languages,
controlled by your locale. If your system did not set this up
for you automatically, then you may need to set $LC_MESSAGES,
$LANG, or another system-dependent environment variable to
indicate your preferred locale, usually specified in the POSIX
format:
<language>[_<territory>[.<character-set>[,<version>]]]
If the desired page is available in your locale, it will be
displayed in lieu of the standard (usually American English)
page.
If you find that the translations supplied with this package are
not available in your native language and you would like to
supply them, please contact the maintainer who will be
coordinating such activity.
Individual manual pages are normally written and maintained by
the maintainers of the program, function, or other topic that
they document, and are not included with this package. If you
find that a manual page is missing or inadequate, please report
that to the maintainers of the package in question.
For information regarding other features and extensions available
with this manual pager, please read the documents supplied with
the package.
