---
name: "hman"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "man2html"
version: "1.6g-16"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hman"
---

# hman(1)

browse the on-line manual pages

## NAME

hman - browse the on-line manual pages

## SYNOPSIS

**hman** \[ -P *browser* \] \[ -H *host* \] \[ *section* \] *name*\
 **hman** \[ -P *browser* \] \[ -H *host* \] \[ *section* \] \[ index \]

## DESCRIPTION

The  **hman** script is an interface to [man2html(1)](/man2html/1.md) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and view the output in your favourite browser. The behaviour reminds of that of [**man**(1)](/man/1.md) so that many people will be able to alias **hman** to **man**. If the browser used is netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, **hman** will pass the request to the existing browser.

## OPTIONS

- **-P browser**

  Specify which browser (like lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use.  This option overrides the **MANHTMLPAGER** environment variable. The default is **sensible-browser**.\
   A special value *lynxcgi* can be used for the non-httpd version of **lynx**, but this requires the [**lynx**(1)](/lynx/1.md) command to be installed and approprietly configured.

- **-H host**

  Specify from what host to get the man pages. This option overrides the **MANHTMLHOST** environment variable. The default is **localhost**.

## ENVIRONMENT

- MANHTMLPAGER

  The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

- MANHTMLHOST

  The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

## SEE ALSO

[**man**(1)](/man/1.md), [**man2html**(1)](/man2html/1.md), [**arena**(1)](/arena/1.md), [**lynx**(1)](/lynx/1.md), [**sensible-browser**(1)](/sensible-browser/1.md), [**netscape**(1)](/netscape/1.md), **xmosaic**(1), [**glimpse**(1)](/glimpse/1.md)

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