NAME
g.manual - Accesses GRASS User's Reference Manual entries.
(GRASS File Management Program)
SYNOPSIS
g.manual
g.manual help
g.manual [-1aefs]
[entries=name[,name,...]]
DESCRIPTION
The g.manual command provides user access to the
on-line GRASS User's Reference Manual entries. The
user may request a list of available manual entries, and
may get a manual entry printed to the terminal screen
and/or to the line printer.
OPTIONS
g.manual can be run either interactively or
non-interactively. If the user types:
-
g.manual
on the command line without program arguments, the program
will prompt the user for a manual entry to display. The
user may enter list to get a section-by-section
listing of the manual entries available. Once the user has
viewed the desired information it may be printed by
responding to the questions appropriately.
The user can run the program non-interactively, by
specifying the appropriate options and/or the
name(s) of the manual entries to displayed.
OPTIONS
-1
This option will list all manual entries, one per line.
-a
This option will list all manual entries in a more
appealing format. The manual page list will be separated
by manual section.
-e
This option tells g.manual to ignore empty
manual sections when printing the listings from the
-1 or -a options.
-f
This option will add formfeeds to output listing when
using the -a option.
-s
This option will cause g.manual to run
silently. Instead of displaying the manual page it will
simply set the exit status to:
- 0 if entry exists, or
- 1 if it does not exist.
These entries may also be accessed through the
g.help command.
SEE ALSO
GRASS
User's Reference Manual
g.help
AUTHOR
Kurt Buehler,
U.S.Army Construction Engineering
Research Laboratory