man.bsd.lv manual page server

DESCRIPTION

This implementation of the apropos utility is more sophisticated than the classical version. Like modern search applications, it uses advanced techniques like stemming and term weighting to rank the matching results in decreasing order of relevance.

Quotes are optional for specifying multiword queries.

It supports the following options:

-[1-9]

Search only within the specified section of manual pages.

-C path

Use different man(1) configuration file than the default, /etc/man.conf.

-h

Turn on html formatting.

-i

Turn on terminal escape code formatting.

-l

Legacy mode: Only searches name and name description. Does not print context and turns off formatting.

-M

Do not show the context of the match.

-m

Show the context of the match (default).

-n results

Output up to the specified number of search results. The default limit is infinity.

-P

Turn on pager formatting.

-p

Turn on pager formatting, and pipe the results through a pager (defaulting to more(1)).

-r

Turn off formatting.

-S machine

Limit the search to the pages for the specified machine architecture. By default pages for all architectures are shown in the search results.

-s section

Restrict the search to the specified section of the manual. By default, pages from all sections are shown. This option is for backwards compatibility with the classic version of apropos, using it is equivalent to using the [123456789] options directly.