MAN PAGES

A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards and conventions, and even abstract concepts. A user may invoke a man page by issuing the man command. 0

The man utility

The ‘mandoc’ 1 package is the default provider of the ‘man’ utility.

Install mandoc:

$ kiss b mandoc
$ kiss i mandoc

By default, man typically uses a terminal pager program such as more or less to display its output. This can be configured via the $PAGER environment variable.

Linux manuals

The Linux man-pages project 2 documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs.

$ kiss b man-pages
$ kiss i man-pages

POSIX manuals

These are pages from POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1. Since TC1 appeared in 2013, it is also known as POSIX.1-2013. The man pages contain descriptions of the headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard.

$ kiss b man-pages-posix
$ kiss i man-pages-posix