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). iain