mansect - print the source code of sections of manual pages

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  EXAMPLES  SEE ALSO 

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NAME

mansect − print the source code of sections of manual pages

SYNOPSIS

mansect

section [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

The mansect command prints the source code of the section of the given manual-page files. If no files are specified, the standard input is used.

section is a PCRE2 regular expression.

The TH line is unconditionally printed.

The output of this program is suitable for piping to the groff(1) pipeline.

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)

SEE ALSO

lexgrog(1), groff(1), pcre2grep(1), mandb(8)

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