mansect(1)

okay bestie, welcome to mansect(1) from the General Commands Manual — it's the little tool that prints the source code of sections of manual pages, and it's lowkey iconic 💅

💖 NAME 💖

mansect — print the source code of sections of manual pages ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mansect section [file ...]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so the mansect command prints the source code of the section of the given manual-page files. that's the whole main character energy of it 💖

the .TH line is unconditionally printed — no ifs, no buts, no vibe check, it's always coming through 🫶

and the output of this program is suitable for piping to the groff(1) pipeline — literally built for that pipeline moment ✨

💅 PARAMETERS 💅

• section — a PCRE2 regular expression. yes bestie, a real PCRE2 regex, not just vibes 🔥
• file — if no files are specified, the standard input is used. that's the rule, no cap 🎀

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

here's the whole thing in action, bestie:

$ man -w strtol strtoul | xargs mansect 'NAME|SEE ALSO';
.lf 1 /usr/local/man/man3/strtol.3
.TH strtol 3 2024-07-23 "Linux man-pages 6.9.1"
.SH NAME
strtol, strtoll, strtoq - convert a string to a long integer
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR atof (3),
.BR atoi (3),
.BR atol (3),
.BR strtod (3),
.BR strtoimax (3),
.BR strtoul (3)
.lf 1 /usr/local/man/man3/strtoul.3
.TH strtoul 3 2024-07-23 "Linux man-pages 6.9.1"
.SH NAME
strtoul, strtoull, strtouq - convert a string to an unsigned long integer
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR a64l (3),
.BR atof (3),
.BR atoi (3),
.BR atol (3),
.BR strtod (3),
.BR strtol (3),
.BR strtoumax (3)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go say hi to the whole friend group:

• lexgrog(1)
• groff(1)
• pcre2grep(1)
• mandb(8)

this page is from Linux man-pages 6.18, dated 2026-01-30, and it's mansect(1) — love u, bye bestie 💖🎀