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.SH DESCRIPTION .B man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. If you specify .IR section , .B man only looks in that section of the manual. .I name is normally the name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command, function, or file. However, if .I name contains a slash .RB ( / ) then .B man interprets it as a file specification, so that you can do .B "man ./foo.5" or even .B "man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz\fR.\fP" .PP