Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

User Commands (m - o) man(1)
/nonnative/usr/share/man
Contains reference information for the TNS C compiler (G-series RVUs only).
Independent products can either create additional directory structures for reference pages or add
their reference page files to one of these sets. If the man command does not display a reference
page for a recently installed product, contact your site administrator for the pathname of its refer-
ence page directory structure.
The -M flag is used if you have reference pages in a directory other than either the default loca-
tions or the directories in MANPATH.
If the standard output is a tty, and the -c flag is not provided, man uses more, or the pager pro-
vided by the PAGER environment variable, to display the reference page.
Environment Variables
The man command supports the MANPATH environment variable in the following ways:
• If MANPATH is not defined and the -M flag is not used, then directories are searched in
the following order:
/usr/share/man/man*
/usr/local/man/man*
/usr/share/man/cat*
/usr/local/man/cat*
This ordering can cause the content of /usr/share/man/cat* to become unavailable when
source files are installed in either of the man* subdirectories.
• If MANPATH is defined with multiple values, then the first directory in which a match is
found ends the search for reference pages to display.
FILES
/nonnative/usr/share/man/whatis
The whatis keyword database for the reference pages in
/nonnative/usr/share/man (G-series RVUs only).
/usr/local/man A directory structure reserved for local site reference pages. This
directory might not exist on your system.
/usr/share/man/whatis The whatis keyword database for the OSS reference pages in
/usr/share/man.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: apropos(1), more(1), merge_whatis(8), whatis(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
The following are HP extensions to the Single UNIX Specification, Version 2:
• All command line flags other than -k
• Support for the MANPATH environment variable
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