mansect(1)

mansect1

Print the source code of sections of manual pages

Usage

mansect section [file ...]

Overview

The mansect command prints the source code of the section of the given manual-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 'NAME|SEE ALSO';
.lf 1 /usr/local/man/man3/strtol.3
.TH strtol 3 2024-07-23 "Linux man-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 2024-07-23 "Linux man-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)

From man-pages-utils 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.