Ubuntu Manpage: man - en grænseflade til referencemanualerne på nettet

NAVN

       man - en grænseflade til referencemanualerne på nettet

SYNOPSIS

       man  [-C  fil]  [-d] [-D] [--warnings[=advarsler]] [-R kodning] [-L sprog] [-m system[,...]] [-M sti] [-S
       liste]  [-e  udvidelse]  [-i|-I]  [--regex|--wildcard]  [--names-only]  [-a]  [-u]  [--no-subpages]   [-P
       tekstviser]  [-r  prompt]  [-7]  [-E  kodning]  [--no-hyphenation]  [--no-justification] [-p streng] [-t]
       [-T[enhed]] [-H[browser]] [-X[dpi]] [-Z] [[afsnit] side ...] ...
       man -k [apropos tilvalg] regexp ...
       man -K [-w|-W] [-S liste] [-i|-I] [--regex] [afsnit] term ...
       man -k [apropos tilvalg] regexp ...
       man -l [-C fil] [-d] [-D] [--warnings[=advarsler]] [-R kodning] [-L sprog] [-P  tekstviser]  [-r  prompt]
       [-7] [-E kodning] [-p streng] [-t] [-T[enhed]] [-H[browser]] [-X[dpi]] [-Z] fil ...
       man -w|-W [-C fil] [-d] [-D] side ...
       man -c [-C fil] [-d] [-D] side ...
       man [-?V]

BESKRIVELSE

man er systemets manuelle tekstviser. Hver side-parameter sendt til man er normalt navnet på et program,
et redskab eller en funktion. manualsiden associeret med hvert af disse parametre findes så og vises.
afsnit, hvis angivet, vil dirigere %man til kun at kigge i det afsnit af manualen. Standardhandlingen er
at søge i alle de tilgængelige afsnit, der efterfølger den prædefinerede rækkefølge ("1 n l 8 3 2 3posix
3pm 3perl 5 4 9 6 7" som standard, med mindre overskrevet af direktivet SECTION i /etc/manpath.config),
og at vise kun den første side fundet, selv hvis side findes i flere afsnit.

Tabellen nedenfor viser section-antallet af manualen efterfulgt af typen af sider de indeholder.

1
Kørbare programmer eller
skalkommandoer
2
Systemkald (funktioner stillet til
rådighed af kernen)
3
Bibliotekskald (funktioner i
programbiblioteker)
4
Specielle filer (normalt fundet i
/dev)
5
Filformater og konventioner f.eks.
/etc/passwd
6
Spil
7
Diverse (inklusive makropakker og
konventioner), f.eks. man(7),
groff(7)
8
Kommandoer til systemadministration
(normalt kun for root)
9
Kernerutiner [Ikkestandard]

En manualside består af flere afsnit.

Konventionelle afsnitsnavne inkluderer NAVN, SYNOPSIS, KONFIGURATION, BESKRIVELSE, TILVALG,
AFSLUT-STATUS, RETURVÆRDI, FEJL, MILJØ, FILER, VERSIONER, KONFORMERER TIL, NOTER, FEJL, EKSEMPEL,
FORFATTERE, og SE OGSÅ.

De følgende konventioner gælder for afsnittet SYNOPSIS og kan bruges som en vejledning i andre afsnit.

fed tekst
skriv præcis som vist.
kursiv
erstat med passende argument.
[-abc]
et eller alle argumenter inden i [ ]
er valgfrie.
-a|-b
tilvalg afgrænset af | kan ikke
bruges sammen.
argument ...
argument kan gentages.
[udtryk] ...
hele udtrykket indenfor [ ] kan
gentages.

Præcis optegning kan afhænge af uddataenheden. For eksempel vil man normalt ikke kunne optegne kursiv når
man befinder sig i en manual, og man vil normalt bruge understregning eller farvelagt tekst i stedet for.

The command or function illustration is a pattern that should match all possible invocations. In some
cases it is advisable to illustrate several exclusive invocations as is shown in the SYNOPSIS section of
this manual page.

EKSEMPLER

       man ls
           Vis manualsiden for punkt (program) ls.

       man -a intro
           Vis,  i rækkefølge, alle de tilgængelige intro-manualsider indeholdt i denne manual. Det er muligt at
           afbryde mellem successive visninger eller udelade nogle af dem.

       man -t alias | lpr -Pps
           Format the manual page referenced by `alias', usually a shell manual page, into the default troff  or
           groff  format  and  pipe  it  to  the  printer  named  ps.   The  default output for groff is usually
           PostScript.  man --help should advise as to which processor is bound to the -t option.

       man -l -Tdvi ./foo.1x.gz > ./foo.1x.dvi
           This command will decompress and format the nroff  source  manual  page  ./foo.1x.gz  into  a  device
           independent  (dvi) file.  The redirection is necessary as the -T flag causes output to be directed to
           stdout with no pager.  The output could be viewed with a program such as xdvi  or  further  processed
           into PostScript using a program such as dvips.

       man -k printf
           Søg  i  de  korte beskrivelser og navnene på manualsiderne for nøgleordet printf som regulært udtryk.
           Udskriv resultaterne. Svarer til apropos printf.

       man -f smail
           Slå manualsiderne refereret af smail op og vis den korte beskrivelse for det fundne resultat.  Svarer
           til whatis smail.

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.

The manual pager utilities packaged as man-db make extensive use of index database caches. These caches
contain information such as where each manual page can be found on the filesystem and what its whatis
(short one line description of the man page) contains, and allow man to run faster than if it had to
search the filesystem each time to find the appropriate manual page. If requested using the -u option,
man will ensure that the caches remain consistent, which can obviate the need to manually run software to
update traditional whatis text databases.

If man cannot find a mandb initiated index database for a particular manual page hierarchy, it will still
search for the requested manual pages, although file globbing will be necessary to search within that
hierarchy. If whatis or apropos fails to find an index it will try to extract information from a
traditional whatis database instead.

These utilities support compressed source nroff files having, by default, the extensions of .Z, .z and
.gz. It is possible to deal with any compression extension, but this information must be known at
compile time. Also, by default, any cat pages produced are compressed using gzip. Each `global' manual
page hierarchy such as /usr/share/man or /usr/X11R6/man may have any directory as its cat page hierarchy.
Traditionally the cat pages are stored under the same hierarchy as the man pages, but for reasons such as
those specified in the File Hierarchy Standard (FHS), it may be better to store them elsewhere. For
details on how to do this, please read manpath(5). For details on why to do this, read the standard.

Oversættelser er tilgængelige via denne pakke. Oversatte manualsider kan tilgås (hvis de er tilgængelige
på dit system) via brug af sprog-funktioner. For at aktivere denne understøttelse, er det nødvendigt at
angive enten $LC_MESSAGES, $LANG eller en anden systemafhængig miljøvariabel for dit sprog, normalt
specificeret i det POSIX 1003.1-baserede format:

<language>[_<territory>[.<character-set>[,<version>]]]

Hvis den ønskede side er tilgængelig i dit sprog, vil den blive vist i stedet for standardsiden (normalt
amerikansk-engelsk).

Support for international message catalogues is also featured in this package and can be activated in the
same way, again if available. If you find that the manual pages and message catalogues 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.

For information regarding other features and extensions available with this manual pager, please read the
documents supplied with the package.

DEFAULTS

man will search for the desired manual pages within the index database caches. If the -u option is given,
a cache consistency check is performed to ensure the databases accurately reflect the filesystem. If
this option is always given, it is not generally necessary to run mandb after the caches are initially
created, unless a cache becomes corrupt. However, the cache consistency check can be slow on systems
with many manual pages installed, so it is not performed by default, and system administrators may wish
to run mandb every week or so to keep the database caches fresh. To forestall problems caused by
outdated caches, man will fall back to file globbing if a cache lookup fails, just as it would if no
cache was present.

Once a manual page has been located, a check is performed to find out if a relative preformatted `cat'
file already exists and is newer than the nroff file. If it does and is, this preformatted file is
(usually) decompressed and then displayed, via use of a pager. The pager can be specified in a number of
ways, or else will fall back to a default is used (see option -P for details). If no cat is found or is
older than the nroff file, the nroff is filtered through various programs and is shown immediately.

If a cat file can be produced (a relative cat directory exists and has appropriate permissions), man will
compress and store the cat file in the background.

The filters are deciphered by a number of means. Firstly, the command line option -p or the environment
variable $MANROFFSEQ is interrogated. If -p was not used and the environment variable was not set, the
initial line of the nroff file is parsed for a preprocessor string. To contain a valid preprocessor
string, the first line must resemble

'\" <string>

where string can be any combination of letters described by option -p below.

If none of the above methods provide any filter information, a default set is used.

A formatting pipeline is formed from the filters and the primary formatter (nroff or [tg]roff with -t)
and executed. Alternatively, if an executable program mandb_nfmt (or mandb_tfmt with -t) exists in the
man tree root, it is executed instead. It gets passed the manual source file, the preprocessor string,
and optionally the device specified with -T or -E as arguments.

TILVALG

Non argument options that are duplicated either on the command line, in $MANOPT, or both, are not
harmful. For options that require an argument, each duplication will override the previous argument
value.

Generelle tilvalg
-C fil, --config-file=fil
Brug denne brugerkonfigurationsfil frem for standarden ~/.manpath.

-d, --debug
Vis fejlsøgningsinformation.

-D, --default
This option is normally issued as the very first option and resets man's behaviour to its default.
Its use is to reset those options that may have been set in $MANOPT. Any options that follow -D
will have their usual effect.

--warnings[=advarsler]
Aktiver advarsler fra groff. Dette kan gøres for at udføre sanitetskontrol på kildetekst for
manualsider. advarsler er en kommaadskilt liste med advarselsnavne; hvis den ikke er angivet, er
standarden »mac«. Se “Warnings” node i info groff for en liste over tilgængelige advarselsnavne.

Hovedtilstande for operation
-f, --whatis
Svarer til whatis. Vis en kort beskrivelse fra manualsiden, hvis tilgængelig. Se whatis(1) for
detaljer.

-k, --apropos
Svarer til apropos. Søg i de korte manualsidebeskrivelser for nøgleord og vis alle match. Se
apropos(1) for detaljer.

-K, --global-apropos
Search for text in all manual pages. This is a brute-force search, and is likely to take some
time; if you can, you should specify a section to reduce the number of pages that need to be
searched. Search terms may be simple strings (the default), or regular expressions if the --regex
option is used.

-l, --local-file
Activate `local' mode. Format and display local manual files instead of searching through the
system's manual collection. Each manual page argument will be interpreted as an nroff source file
in the correct format. No cat file is produced. If '-' is listed as one of the arguments, input
will be taken from stdin. When this option is not used, and man fails to find the page required,
before displaying the error message, it attempts to act as if this option was supplied, using the
name as a filename and looking for an exact match.

-w, --where, --path, --location
Vis ikke reelt manualsiden, men vis placeringerne for nroff-kildefilerne, som ville blive
formateret.

-W, --where-cat, --location-cat
Vis ikke reelt manualsiderne, men vis dog placeringerne for katalogfilerne, som ville være blevet
vist. Hvis -w og -W begge er angivet, så vis begge adskilt af mellemrum.

-c, --catman
Dette tilvalg er ikke for generel brug og bør kun bruges af programmet catman.

-R kodning, --recode=kodning
Instead of formatting the manual page in the usual way, output its source converted to the
specified encoding. If you already know the encoding of the source file, you can also use
manconv(1) directly. However, this option allows you to convert several manual pages to a single
encoding without having to explicitly state the encoding of each, provided that they were already
installed in a structure similar to a manual page hierarchy.

Finde manualsider
-L sprog, --locale=sprog
man vil normalt bestemme dit lokale sprog med et kald til C-funktionen setlocale(3), som
undersøger diverse miljøvariabler, muligvis inklusive $LC_MESSAGES og $LANG. For midlertidigt at
overskrive den afslørede værdi bruges dette tilvalg til at supplere en sprog-streng direkte til
man. Bemærk at det ikke vil træde i kraft før søgningen efter sider rent faktisk begynder.
Resultatet såsom hjælpebeskeden vil altid blive vist i det oprindeligt bestemte sprog.

-m system[,...], --systems=system[,...]
Hvis dette system har adgang til andre operativsystemers manualsider, så kan de tilgås med dette
tilvalg. For at søge efter en manualside fra NytOS's manualsidesamling bruges tilvalget -m NytOS.

Det angivet system kan være en kombination af kommaadskilt operativsystemnavne. For at inkludere
en søgning i manualsiderne for udgangspunktets operativsystem inkluderes systemnavnet man i
argumentstrengen. Dette tilvalg vil overskrive miljøvariablen $SYSTEM.

-M sti, --manpath=sti
Angiv en alternativ manualsti. Som standard bruger man manpath-afledt kode til at bestemme
søgestien. Dette tilvalg overskriver miljøvariablen $MANPATH og medfører at tilvalget -m
ignoreres.

A path specified as a manpath must be the root of a manual page hierarchy structured into sections
as described in the man-db manual (under "The manual page system"). To view manual pages outside
such hierarchies, see the -l option.

-S liste, -s liste, --sections=liste
List is a colon- or comma-separated list of `order specific' manual sections to search. This
option overrides the $MANSECT environment variable. (The -s spelling is for compatibility with
System V.)

-e sub-extension, --extension=sub-extension
Some systems incorporate large packages of manual pages, such as those that accompany the Tcl
package, into the main manual page hierarchy. To get around the problem of having two manual
pages with the same name such as exit(3), the Tcl pages were usually all assigned to section l.
As this is unfortunate, it is now possible to put the pages in the correct section, and to assign
a specific `extension' to them, in this case, exit(3tcl). Under normal operation, man will
display exit(3) in preference to exit(3tcl). To negotiate this situation and to avoid having to
know which section the page you require resides in, it is now possible to give man a sub-extension
string indicating which package the page must belong to. Using the above example, supplying the
option -e tcl to man will restrict the search to pages having an extension of *tcl.

-i, --ignore-case
Ignore case when searching for manual pages. This is the default.

-I, --match-case
Search for manual pages case-sensitively.

--regex
Show all pages with any part of either their names or their descriptions matching each page
argument as a regular expression, as with apropos(1). Since there is usually no reasonable way to
pick a "best" page when searching for a regular expression, this option implies -a.

--wildcard
Show all pages with any part of either their names or their descriptions matching each page
argument using shell-style wildcards, as with apropos(1) --wildcard. The page argument must
match the entire name or description, or match on word boundaries in the description. Since there
is usually no reasonable way to pick a "best" page when searching for a wildcard, this option
implies -a.

--names-only
If the --regex or --wildcard option is used, match only page names, not page descriptions, as with
whatis(1). Otherwise, no effect.

-a, --all
Som standard vil man afslutte efter visning af den mest egnet manualside den finder. Brug af dette
tilvalg tvinger man til at vise alle manualsiderne med navne som matcher søgekriteriet.

-u, --update
This option causes man to perform an `inode level' consistency check on its database caches to
ensure that they are an accurate representation of the filesystem. It will only have a useful
effect if man is installed with the setuid bit set.

--no-subpages
By default, man will try to interpret pairs of manual page names given on the command line as
equivalent to a single manual page name containing a hyphen or an underscore. This supports the
common pattern of programs that implement a number of subcommands, allowing them to provide manual
pages for each that can be accessed using similar syntax as would be used to invoke the
subcommands themselves. For example:

$ man -aw git diff
/usr/share/man/man1/git-diff.1.gz

For at deaktivere denne opførsel så brug tilvalget --no-subpages.

$ man -aw --no-subpages git diff
/usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Git.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/diff.1.gz

Kontrol af formateret resultat
-P tekstviser, --pager=tekstviser
Specify which output pager to use. By default, man uses pager. This option overrides the
$MANPAGER environment variable, which in turn overrides the $PAGER environment variable. It is
not used in conjunction with -f or -k.

The value may be a simple command name or a command with arguments, and may use shell quoting
(backslashes, single quotes, or double quotes). It may not use pipes to connect multiple
commands; if you need that, use a wrapper script, which may take the file to display either as an
argument or on standard input.

-r prompt, --prompt=prompt
If a recent version of less is used as the pager, man will attempt to set its prompt and some
sensible options. The default prompt looks like

Manual page name(sec) line x

where name denotes the manual page name, sec denotes the section it was found under and x the
current line number. This is achieved by using the $LESS environment variable.

Supplying -r with a string will override this default. The string may contain the text $MAN_PN
which will be expanded to the name of the current manual page and its section name surrounded by
`(' and `)'. The string used to produce the default could be expressed as

\ Manual\ page\ \$MAN_PN\ ?ltline\ %lt?L/%L.:
byte\ %bB?s/%s..?\ (END):?pB\ %pB\\%..
(tryk h for hjælp eller q for afslut)

It is broken into three lines here for the sake of readability only. For its meaning see the
less(1) manual page. The prompt string is first evaluated by the shell. All double quotes,
back-quotes and backslashes in the prompt must be escaped by a preceding backslash. The prompt
string may end in an escaped $ which may be followed by further options for less. By default man
sets the -ix8 options.

The $MANLESS environment variable described below may be used to set a default prompt string if
none is supplied on the command line.

-7, --ascii
When viewing a pure ascii(7) manual page on a 7 bit terminal or terminal emulator, some
characters may not display correctly when using the latin1(7) device description with GNU nroff.
This option allows pure ascii manual pages to be displayed in ascii with the latin1 device. It
will not translate any latin1 text. The following table shows the translations performed: some
parts of it may only be displayed properly when using GNU nroff's latin1(7) device.

Beskrivelse
Oktal
latin1
ascii
────────────────────────────────
continuation hyphen
255
‐
-
bullet (middle dot)
267
•
o
acute accent
264
´
'
multiplication sign
327
×
x

If the latin1 column displays correctly, your terminal may be set up for latin1 characters and
this option is not necessary. If the latin1 and ascii columns are identical, you are reading this
page using this option or man did not format this page using the latin1 device description. If
the latin1 column is missing or corrupt, you may need to view manual pages with this option.

This option is ignored when using options -t, -H, -T, or -Z and may be useless for nroff other
than GNU's.

-E kodning, --encoding=kodning
Generate output for a character encoding other than the default. For backward compatibility,
encoding may be an nroff device such as ascii, latin1, or utf8 as well as a true character
encoding such as UTF-8.

--no-hyphenation, --nh
Normally, nroff will automatically hyphenate text at line breaks even in words that do not contain
hyphens, if it is necessary to do so to lay out words on a line without excessive spacing. This
option disables automatic hyphenation, so words will only be hyphenated if they already contain
hyphens.

If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent nroff from hyphenating a word at an
inappropriate point, do not use this option, but consult the nroff documentation instead; for
instance, you can put "\%" inside a word to indicate that it may be hyphenated at that point, or
put "\%" at the start of a word to prevent it from being hyphenated.

--no-justification, --nj
Normally, nroff will automatically justify text to both margins. This option disables full
justification, leaving justified only to the left margin, sometimes called "ragged-right" text.

If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent nroff from justifying certain
paragraphs, do not use this option, but consult the nroff documentation instead; for instance, you
can use the ".na", ".nf", ".fi", and ".ad" requests to temporarily disable adjusting and filling.

-p streng, --preprocessor=streng
Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or troff/groff. Not all installations
will have a full set of preprocessors. Some of the preprocessors and the letters used to
designate them are: eqn (e), grap (g), pic (p), tbl (t), vgrind (v), refer (r). This option
overrides the $MANROFFSEQ environment variable. zsoelim is always run as the very first
preprocessor.

-t, --troff
Brug groff -mandoc til at formatere manualsiden til standardud. Tilvalget er ikke krævet sammen
med -H, -T eller -Z.

-T[enhed], --troff-device[=enhed]
Denne indstilling bruges til at ændre groff-resultater (eller muligvis troff'er), så de er egnet
for en enhed udover standarden. -t er underforstået. Eksempler (indeholdt med Groff-1.17)
inkluderer dvi, latin1, ps, utf8, X75 og X100.

-H[browser], --html[=browser]
This option will cause groff to produce HTML output, and will display that output in a web
browser. The choice of browser is determined by the optional browser argument if one is provided,
by the $BROWSER environment variable, or by a compile-time default if that is unset (usually
lynx). This option implies -t, and will only work with GNU troff.

-X[dpi], --gxditview[=dpi]
This option displays the output of groff in a graphical window using the gxditview program. The
dpi (dots per inch) may be 75, 75-12, 100, or 100-12, defaulting to 75; the -12 variants use a
12-point base font. This option implies -T with the X75, X75-12, X100, or X100-12 device
respectively.

-Z, --ditroff
groff vil køre troff og så bruge en passende efterbrænder til at fremstille et resultat egnet for
den valgte enhed. Hvis groff -mandoc er groff, så vil dette tilvalg sendes til groff og vil
undertrykke brugen af en efterbrænder. -t er underforstået.

Få hjælp
-?, --help
Vis en hjælpebesked og afslut.

--usage
Vis en kort hjælpebesked og afslut.

-V, --version
Vis versionsinformation.

AFSLUT-STATUS

       0      Programkørsel endt uden fejl.

       1      Brugs-, syntaks- eller konfigurationsfilfejl.

       2      Operationel fejl.

       3      En underproces returnerede en afslutningsstatus forskellig fra nul.

       16     Mindst en af siderne/filerne/nøgleordene fandtes ikke eller blev ikke matchet.

MILJØ

MANPATH
If $MANPATH is set, its value is used as the path to search for manual pages.

MANROFFOPT
The contents of $MANROFFOPT are added to the command line every time man invokes the formatter
(nroff, troff, or groff).

MANROFFSEQ
If $MANROFFSEQ is set, its value is used to determine the set of preprocessors to pass each manual
page through. The default preprocessor list is system dependent.

MANSECT
If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections and it is used to determine
which manual sections to search and in what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 5
4 9 6 7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/manpath.config.

MANPAGER, PAGER
If $MANPAGER or $PAGER is set ($MANPAGER is used in preference), its value is used as the name of
the program used to display the manual page. By default, pager is used.

MANLESS
If $MANLESS is set, its value will be used as the default prompt string for the less pager, as if
it had been passed using the -r option (so any occurrences of the text $MAN_PN will be expanded in
the same way). For example, if you want to set the prompt string unconditionally to “my prompt
string”, set $MANLESS to ‘-Psmy prompt string’. Using the -r option overrides this environment
variable.

BROWSER
If $BROWSER is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of commands, each of which in turn is used
to try to start a web browser for man --html. In each command, %s is replaced by a filename
containing the HTML output from groff, %% is replaced by a single percent sign (%), and %c is
replaced by a colon (:).

SYSTEM Hvis $SYSTEM er angivet, vil det have den samme effekt, som hvis den var blevet angivet som
argument for tilvalget -m.

MANOPT If $MANOPT is set, it will be parsed prior to man's command line and is expected to be in a
similar format. As all of the other man specific environment variables can be expressed as
command line options, and are thus candidates for being included in $MANOPT it is expected that
they will become obsolete. N.B. All spaces that should be interpreted as part of an option's
argument must be escaped.

MANWIDTH
If $MANWIDTH is set, its value is used as the line length for which manual pages should be
formatted. If it is not set, manual pages will be formatted with a line length appropriate to the
current terminal (using the value of $COLUMNS, an ioctl(2) if available, or falling back to 80
characters if neither is available). Cat pages will only be saved when the default formatting can
be used, that is when the terminal line length is between 66 and 80 characters.

MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING
Normally, when output is not being directed to a terminal (such as to a file or a pipe),
formatting characters are discarded to make it easier to read the result without special tools.
However, if $MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is set to any non-empty value, these formatting characters are
retained. This may be useful for wrappers around man that can interpret formatting characters.

MAN_KEEP_STDERR
Normally, when output is being directed to a terminal (usually to a pager), any error output from
the command used to produce formatted versions of manual pages is discarded to avoid interfering
with the pager's display. Programs such as groff often produce relatively minor error messages
about typographical problems such as poor alignment, which are unsightly and generally confusing
when displayed along with the manual page. However, some users want to see them anyway, so, if
$MAN_KEEP_STDERR is set to any non-empty value, error output will be displayed as usual.

LANG, LC_MESSAGES
Afhængig af system og implementering, vil enten en af eller begge $LANG og $LC_MESSAGES blive
spurgt for den aktuelle beskeds sprog. man vil vise dets beskeder i det sprog (hvis
tilgængeligt). Se setlocale(3) for mere udførlige detaljer.

FILER

       /etc/manpath.config
              konfigurationsfil for man-db.

       /usr/share/man
              Et globalt manualsidehierarki.

       /usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              Et traditionelt globalt index-databasemellemlager.

       /var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              Et FHS-overholdende globalt index-databasemellemlager.

SE OGSÅ

       apropos(1), groff(1), less(1),  manpath(1),  nroff(1),  troff(1),  whatis(1),  zsoelim(1),  setlocale(3),
       manpath(5), ascii(7), latin1(7), man(7), catman(8), mandb(8), Manual for pakken man-db, FSSTND

HISTORIK

       1990, 1991 – oprindelig skrevet af John W. Eaton (jwe@che.utexas.edu).

       23.    dec    1992:   Rik   Faith   (faith@cs.unc.edu)   anvendte   fejlrettelser   af   Willem   Kasdorp
       (wkasdo@nikhefk.nikef.nl).

       30. april 1994 – 23. februar 2000: Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) har udviklet og  vedligeholdt  denne
       pakke med hjælp fra nogle få dedikerede personer.

       30.  oktober  1996  –  30. marts 2001: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> vedligeholdte og forberedte
       denne pakke for Debianprojektet med hjælp fra hele fællesskabet.

       31. marts 2001 – til i dag: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> udvikler og vedligeholder nu man-db.

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