z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

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specify a section number, man searches only that section for entry, instead
of searching all sections. The online help available for z/OS UNIX contains
one section:
1 Commands
To find a given entry, man checks each directory in MANPATH for a file with a
specific name. For each section number requested, man searches MANPATH for
the following files in this order:
1. catn/entry.n in each directory in MANPATH
2. entry.n in /var/man/LANG (the man ″cache″)
3. mann/*.book in each directory in MANPATH
4. mann/entry.n in each directory in MANPATH
If no section number is specified then man searches all sections in order from 1 to
9, then 0. The first entry found by man is the one displayed.
If output is to the terminal, then man invokes a pager command to filter and display
the manual pages. If MANPAGER is defined, it is used. If not, then if PAGER is
defined, it is used; otherwise, man defaults to using the command:
pg –e –p '(Page %d)'
If you are running in a doublebyte locale, set MANPAGER or PAGER to invoke a
command which supports doublebyte characters, such as the more command. pg
does not support doublebyte characters.
To find out which utilities do comparisons, issue:
man –k compare
You can use the man command to view manual descriptions of TSO/E commands.
To do this, you must prefix all commands with tso. For example, to view a
description of the MOUNT command, you would enter:
man tsomount
You can also use the man command to view manual descriptions of commands that
support subcommands. To do this, you must prefix all subcommands with the name
of the command. For example, to view a description of the dbx alias subcommand,
you would enter:
man dbxalias
The same applies for the pdbx subcommands. For example, enter:
man pdbxcont
to display information on the cont subcommand.
To view an online manual description for the tcsh ls-F built-in command, you must
type ls-F without the dash. So, to see the man page you would issue:
man lsF
To view an online manual description for the tcsh @ (at) built-in command, you
must type at with tcsh in front of it. So, to see the man page you would issue:
man tcshat
man
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