e 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

Don't actually display the manual page, but do print the loca‐
tion of the source nroff file that would be formatted. If the
-a option is also used, then print the locations of all source
files that match the search criteria.

-W, --where-cat, --location-cat

Don't actually display the manual page, but do print the loca‐
tion of the preformatted cat file that would be displayed. If
the -a option is also used, then print the locations of all pre‐
formatted cat files that match the search criteria.

If -w and -W are both used, then print both source file and cat
file separated by a space. If all of -w, -W, and -a are used,
then do this for each possible match.

-c, --catman
This option is not for general use and should only be used by
the catman program.

-R encoding, --recode=encoding
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 man‐
conv(1) directly. However, this option allows you to convert
several manual pages to a single encoding without having to ex‐
plicitly state the encoding of each, provided that they were al‐
ready installed in a structure similar to a manual page hierar‐
chy.

Consider using man-recode(1) instead for converting multiple

manual pages, since it has an interface designed for bulk con‐
version and so can be much faster.

Finding manual pages

-L locale, --locale=locale
man will normally determine your current locale by a call to the
C function setlocale(3) which interrogates various environment
variables, possibly including $LC_MESSAGES and $LANG. To tempo‐
rarily override the determined value, use this option to supply
a locale string directly to man. Note that it will not take ef‐
fect until the search for pages actually begins. Output such as
the help message will always be displayed in the initially de‐
termined locale.

-m system[,...], --systems=system[,...]
If this system has access to other operating system's manual
pages, they can be accessed using this option. To search for a
manual page from NewOS's manual page collection, use the option
-m NewOS.

The system specified can be a combination of comma delimited op‐

erating system names. To include a search of the native operat‐
ing system's manual pages, include the system name man in the
argument string. This option will override the $SYSTEM environ‐
 ment variable.

-M path, --manpath=path
Specify an alternate manpath to use. By default, man uses man‐
path derived code to determine the path to search. This option
overrides the $MANPATH environment variable and causes option -m
to be ignored.

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 list, -s list, --sec