UMAN(1)

💖 UMAN(1) — General Commands Manual, but make it bestie ✨

Okay so this is the page for uman, the uninstalled manual page reader. Yes bestie, we are reading man pages that are not installed. Periodt. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

uman — uninstalled manual page reader 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

uman [search-string]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

The uman script formats and displays uninstalled manual pages, without using the system manual. No cap. The search-string argument should be a manual page title (or in the case of library documentation, the name of a function, structure or class). It’s giving “tell me who you’re looking for and I’ll go find their page.” 🔥

The UMANPATH environment variable should be defined as a comma-separated list of directories containing manual page source files such as foo.1, and optionally BSDBuild-generated .manlink.mk files. uman will search the directories recursively. Like, it’s gonna dig through every folder, bestie. 🧚

If a match is found, uman formats and feeds the resulting manual page to the system PAGER (or the default, less(1)). Slay. 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• build.common.mk(5) — another page to check out, iykyk.
• build.man.mk(5) — and this one too, fr fr.
• http://hypertriton.com/bsdbuild/ — yep, this exact URL is in the SEE ALSO. 💜

This lil page is from Debian, dated DECEMBER 4, 2009, and the manual is UMAN(1) — periodt. 💖✨