How to get specific section inside a MAN page?

Question

I want to get only specific sections of MAN page inside a shell (or perl) script and print it.

For eg: only the SYNOPSIS section of MAN page

Is there any standard way to do that?

Regards, Anandan

Answer 1

Not as far as I know, but you can search by typing '/' followed by the text you want to search for, then press 'n' repeatedly to go to the next match, or 'N' to go to the previous match.

Answer 2

I haven't played with Linux/Unix in a long while, but perhaps you can perform a:

man MANPAGE|a2ps -m > grep -A 1000 SYNOPSIS

Answer 3

Type the '/' key, then type the string you want to search for (you'll see your query at the bottom of the terminal as you type) and press enter. It'll highlight all the matches and take you to the first one. After that, type '/' and press enter to go to the next match.

Answer 4

If you want to navigate to a specific section of a man page you can use this handy method:

Definition

man2() { 
  man -P 'less -p ^EXAMPLES' $1
} 

Example

man2 stat