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mansect

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 202-0-30
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NAME

mansect - print the source code of sections of manual pages

SYNOPSIS

section [file~...]

DESCRIPTION

The mansect command prints the source code of the section of the given manua-page files. The TH line is unconditionally printed. The output of this program is suitable for piping to the groff(1) pipeline.

PARAMETERS

section: A PCRE2 regular expression.
file: If no files are specified, the standard input is used.

EXAMPLES

$~man -w strtol strtoul | xargs mansect [aq]NAME|SEE ALSO[aq]; .lf 1 /usr/local/man/man3/strtol.3 .TH strtol 3 202-0-23 "Linux ma-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 3 202-0-23 "Linux ma-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)