hman

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 19 January 1998
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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) 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) 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, elinks, firefox, or chromium-browser, ...) to use. This option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER environment variable. Otherwise, hman will use your system's default browser via xdg-open(1).
-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.