On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Iain Hibbert <plu...@rya-online.net> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, David Holland wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:44:07AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: >> > But: >> > >> > man -S N STRING >> > >> > to work, and >> > >> > man -S N -k STRING >> > >> > not?... >> >> I think you're looking for man -s, which works fine. I didn't even >> know -S existed. > > its a GNU thing (and, FreeBSD uses GNU man btw). > > the CVS commit for our "-s" states that it follows the SysV convention, > except that you can't provide a list eg "-s 2,3". I don't know where GNU > got their inspiration from or why they used -S instead (-s is unused). >
GNU man expects a section list with -S and uses no flag for a specific section when looking up a page. I has been silently accepting -s for a while, however.
