-a

Displays all man pages that match file name. The pages are displayed sequentially in the order they are found.

-l

Lists all man pages that match file name. You can use the output of this command to specify a section number with the -s option.

-s section-number

Searches section-number for file name. In the SunOS release 4 software, the man command accepted the section number as an option; in this release, the section number must be preceded by -s.

-F

Forces the man command to search all directories until file name is found. This option overrides the windex database and the man.cf file.