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diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1
--- a/usr.bin/man/man.1
+++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.Nd display online manual documentation pages
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Op Fl adho
+.Op Fl adhlo
.Op Fl t | w
.Op Fl M Ar manpath
.Op Fl P Ar pager
@@ -144,6 +144,15 @@
.Ar expression ,
emulating basic functionality of
.Xr apropos 1 .
+.It Fl l
+Interpret all arguments as absolute or relative filename(s)
+of the manual page(s) to display.
+No search is done and the options
+.Fl M ,
+.Fl m ,
+and
+.Fl S
+are ignored.
.It Fl m Ar arch Ns Op : Ns Ar machine
Override the default architecture and machine settings allowing lookup of
other platform specific manual pages.
@@ -269,12 +278,15 @@
.Pa /usr/share/man/man4
.El
.Ss Displaying Specific Manual Files
-The
+For compatibility reasons,
.Nm
-utility also supports displaying a specific manual page if passed a path
-to the file as long as it contains a
+will interpret any argument containing at least one
.Ql /
-character.
+character as an absolute or relative path to a manual page to be
+displayed.
+This heuristic, made redundant by the more widely supported
+.Fl l
+option, is now deprecated and may be removed in future releases.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of
.Nm :
@@ -398,7 +410,7 @@
.Pp
Show a manual page in the current working directory:
.Pp
-.Dl $ man ./man.1
+.Dl $ man -l man.1
.Pp
Show the location of manual pages in sections 1 and 8 which contain the word
.Ql arm :
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.sh b/usr.bin/man/man.sh
--- a/usr.bin/man/man.sh
+++ b/usr.bin/man/man.sh
@@ -511,13 +511,21 @@
# Usage: man_find_and_display page
# Search through the manpaths looking for the given page.
man_find_and_display() {
- local found_page locpath p path sect
+ local found_page has_slash locpath p path sect
# Check to see if it's a file. But only if it has a '/' in
- # the filename.
+ # the filename or if -l was specified.
case "$1" in
- */*) if [ -f "$1" -a -r "$1" ]; then
+ */*) has_slash=yes
+ ;;
+ esac
+ if [ -n "$has_slash" -o -n "$lflag" ]; then
+ if [ -f "$1" -a -r "$1" ]; then
decho "Found a usable page, displaying that"
+ if [ -z "$lflag" ]; then
+ echo "Opening a file directly is deprecated," \
+ "use -l instead." >&2
+ fi
unset use_cat
manpage="$1"
setup_cattool "$manpage"
@@ -531,9 +539,12 @@
man_display_page
fi
return
+ elif [ -n "$lflag" ]; then
+ echo "Cannot read $1" >&2
+ ret=1
+ return
fi
- ;;
- esac
+ fi
IFS=:
for sect in $MANSECT; do
@@ -601,7 +612,7 @@
local cmd_arg
OPTIND=1
- while getopts 'K:M:P:S:adfhkm:op:tw' cmd_arg; do
+ while getopts 'K:M:P:S:adfhklm:op:tw' cmd_arg; do
case "${cmd_arg}" in
K) Kflag=Kflag
REGEXP=$OPTARG ;;
@@ -613,6 +624,7 @@
f) fflag=fflag ;;
h) man_usage 0 ;;
k) kflag=kflag ;;
+ l) lflag=lflag ;;
m) mflag=$OPTARG ;;
o) oflag=oflag ;;
p) MANROFFSEQ=$OPTARG ;;
@@ -625,16 +637,19 @@
shift $(( $OPTIND - 1 ))
# Check the args for incompatible options.
-
- case "${Kflag}${fflag}${kflag}${tflag}${wflag}" in
+ case "${Kflag}${fflag}${kflag}${lflag}${tflag}${wflag}" in
Kflagfflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -K and -f"; man_usage ;;
Kflag*kflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -K and -k"; man_usage ;;
+ Kflag*lflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -K and -l"; man_usage ;;
Kflag*tflag) echo "Incompatible options: -K and -t"; man_usage ;;
fflagkflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -f and -k"; man_usage ;;
+ fflag*lflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -f and -l"; man_usage ;;
fflag*tflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -f and -t"; man_usage ;;
fflag*wflag) echo "Incompatible options: -f and -w"; man_usage ;;
- *kflagtflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -k and -t"; man_usage ;;
+ *kflaglflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -k and -l"; man_usage ;;
+ *kflag*tflag*) echo "Incompatible options: -k and -t"; man_usage ;;
*kflag*wflag) echo "Incompatible options: -k and -w"; man_usage ;;
+ *lflag*wflag) echo "Incompatible options: -l and -w"; man_usage ;;
*tflagwflag) echo "Incompatible options: -t and -w"; man_usage ;;
esac
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