mansectf(1)

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version 6.20 · 4 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

💖 mansectf(1) — the girlies' guide to slicing up man pages 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to mansectf, a lil tool from the General Commands Manual that formats specific sections of manual pages. she's niche, she's specific, she knows exactly what she wants. no cap. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mansectf — format specific sections of manual pages

like... only specific ones. she's picky on purpose and honestly? iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mansectf section [file ...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. a section and then zero or more files. periodt. 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The mansectf command formats specific sections of manual-page files. that's the entire job description. she does one thing and she does it slay. 🎀

⭐ PARAMETERS ⭐

See mansect(1).

(not me sending you to another manpage... but fr fr, the deets live over there. go read that one, bestie, i'll wait 💜)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

See man(1).

(again — the environment lore is in man(1). consistency is hot. 👑)

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

here's the demo that makes it all click, and it's giving main character energy:

$ man -w strtol strtoul | xargs mansectf 'NAME|SEE ALSO' | cat;
strtol(3)           Library Functions Manual          strtol(3)

NAME
     strtol, strtoll, strtoq - convert a string to a long inte‐
     ger

SEE ALSO
     atof(3),  atoi(3),  atol(3), strtod(3), strtoimax(3), str‐
     toul(3)

Linux man‐pages 6.16       2025‐12‐01                 strtol(3)
---------------------------------------------------------------
strtoul(3)          Library Functions Manual         strtoul(3)

NAME
     strtoul, strtoull, strtouq - convert a string  to  an  un‐
     signed long integer

SEE ALSO
     a64l(3),  atof(3), atoi(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3),
     strtoumax(3)

Linux man‐pages 6.16       2025‐09‐21                strtoul(3)

so you pipe man -w into xargs, hand it the pattern 'NAME|SEE ALSO', and she pulls out just those sections and lets cat show them off. two whole manpages, stripped to the good parts. lowkey genius. 😭✨

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

okay that's the whole thing, you're fully caught up, go forth and slice sections 🧚💖

this page is from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-01-30, for mansectf(1) — bye bestie, ily, drink some water 🌸💅

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